Background
He was born at Sharon, Massachussets, the son of Josiah and Mary (Richards) Talbot, and a descendant of Peter Talbot who was in Dorchester, Massachussets, before 1677.
He was born at Sharon, Massachussets, the son of Josiah and Mary (Richards) Talbot, and a descendant of Peter Talbot who was in Dorchester, Massachussets, before 1677.
He received a common-school education and at the age of eighteen went to Baltimore, Md. , where he established a private school. Although the venture proved successful, Talbot soon returned to New England and continued his studies at South Woodstock, Connecticut, and later at Worcester Academy, Worcester, Massachussets In March 1851 he became a medical student in the office of Dr. Samuel Gregg of Boston, and subsequently pursued courses in the Tremont Street Medical School (which in 1858 was united with the Harvard Medical School) and at the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania (later the Hahnemann Medical College), from which he was graduated in 1853. Returning to Boston, he took additional courses at the Harvard Medical School and in 1854 received the degree of M. D. from that institution.
He spent the fifteen months in hospitals and medical schools of Europe. From the early days of his practice in Boston he took a leading part in the organization activities of the homoeopaths. In this work his wife, Emily (Fairbanks) Talbot, gave him able assistance.
He was also one of those instrumental in the opening in 1870 of a small hospital, which was the nucleus of the Massachusetts Homoeopathic Hospital.
Upon the establishment of the Boston University School of Medicine in 1873, he was appointed dean and professor of surgery. The establishment of the state hospital for the insane at Westboro, Massachussets, was in no small measure the result of his endeavors.
From 1867 to 1873 he was an editor of the New England Medical Gazette.
He died in Hingham, Massachussets.
Largely through his efforts a charter was secured for the Massachusetts Homoeopathic Medical Society and for a medical dispensary. Of the society Talbot was recording secretary from 1861 to 1866; vice-president in 1866; and president in 1867.
He married Emily Fairbanks on October 29, 1856.
He was born in 1785.
She was born in 1789.
Emily Talbot was a leader in efforts to promote higher education of women, and was a founder of the Massachusetts Society for the University Education of Women and the Association of Collegiate Alumnae.
She was born in 1864.
She was born in 1862.
He was born in 1860.
He was born in 1866.
He was born in 1858.
