Talbot, Freeman
public official, legislator, poet, was born April 5, 1811, in Ireland. He has filled numerous public positions of trust; during 1871-72 he served with distinction in the Minnesota state legislature as a senator from Le Sueur county, and for five years afterward was one of the trustees of the insane. He is the author of a number of poems which have appeared in the periodical press; and some of his productions have been given a place in Poets of America and other standard works.