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Crestline Advocate
Thursday, 3 April 1919


         J. M. TALBOTT, a well known attorney of Galion,
       and a native of Crestline, as well as a former
       school teacher here, died at his home in Galion
       Sunday evening.
         JOHN MELVIN TALBOTT was born in Crestline,
       November 15, 1856. He was the son of JOHN R.
       and SARAH (GILLILAND) TALBOTT. He was but a
       few days old when his mother died, and he was
       taken to the home of his grandparents, JOHN
       and CATHERINE GILLILAND. When the boy was six
       years of age, the grandparents moved from the
       Crestline home to a farm two miles south of
       Galion, and when he was fifteen years of age
       he went to Galion and entered the public
       schools.
         MR. TALBOTT attended the country schools up
       to the time of his removal to Galion, in about
       1872 when he entered the Grammar schools, of
       that city as a pupil. He entered the high
       school and finished the prescribed course of
       study therein, graduating with the class of
       1877.
         Soon thereafter he engaged in the profession
       of teaching, holding positions in the rural
       schools near Galion; and was elected to the
       principalship of the high school in Galion,
       which position he held until the fall of 1892
       when he resigned to accept the superintendency
       of the schools of West Cleveland.
         MR. TALBOTT was admitted to the bar in June,
       1889. In 1896 he resigned his position in the
       schools of West Cleveland, returned to Galion,
       and engaged in the practice of law, which he
       successfully followed to the time of his death.
       He was granted a teacher's high school life
       certificate July 1, 1887.
         MR. TALBOTT was united in marriage to MISS
       EVA V. COOPER, in Galion, August 8, 1882, the
       union being blessed with one son, DEAN C., who
       has been in the law business with his father
       since the spring of 1912. The deceased is
       survived by the widow and son, a half-sister,
       MRS. G. C. STEARNS, Bluffton, Ohio, an aunt,
       MRS. MARGARET TUTTLE, of Mt. Gilead.
         The funeral was held Wednesday afternoon.
         
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