Talbert, W. Jasper
soldier, state senator, congressman, was born in 1846 in Edgefield county, S. C. In 1880 he was elected to the South Carolina legislature, and re-elected in 1882; and was elected to the state senate in 1884. He was chosen superintendent of the state penitentiary, which position he held when elected to congress. He has held various positions in the Farmers' Alliance and helped formulate the Ocala demands. He was elected to the fifty-third, fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses.
TALBOT, CHARLES REMINGTON, clergyman, author, was born in 1851. He was a writer of juvenile books who was an episcopal clergyman at Wrentham, Mass. He was the author of Honor Bright; Miltiades Peterkin Paul; Royal Louise; Romulus and Remus, a dog story; A Midshipman at Large: The Imposter; and A Romance of the Revolution. He died in 1891.