John Van Nest Talmage (18 August 1819 – 19 August 1892), was a

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, China. He was sent by the Reformed Church in America from 1847 to 1890.

Biography

His younger brother Thomas De Witt Talmage was also a clergyman, and his family, within the

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, migrated to North America from the

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. His father's family had emigrated from England, and were the founders of the towns of South Hampton, and East Hampton in New York.

Works

* * * He is memorialized in the classic work ''Forty Years in China'', which was written by Rev. John Gerardus Fagg in 1894, a biography genre.

References

External links

Talmage Biography (Pitcher, 1893)
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