David J. Talbot (1847-1913) was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, and died in Macon, Georgia. He married Jane E. C. Talbot (b. Hately) in London, England, in 1878 and had six children. He became a naturalized US citizen in 1883. He lived in New York and Illinois where he worked as a Railroad Freight Agent, before moving to Boston, Massachusetts, around 1900, where he worked as a Freight Broker in the Chamber of Commerce. He subsequently moved to Huntington, Long Island, New York, around 1907; then to Savannah, Georgia, in 1908. By 1910 he was living in Columbia, South Carolina. He also worked in Chicago for the Furness steamer line as the general Western agent, and later as the foreign freight agent for the Kansas City Southern.
Talbot wrote to Mary Baker Eddy on December 8, 1900, and her response to him notes the comfort his words gave her, alluding to the ongoing lawsuit brought against her by Josephine Curtis Woodbury. Eddy appended Talbot's letter to her essay "Man and Woman" because she felt it would "speed the cause of Christian Science." Talbot wrote further letters to Eddy over the following decade, referencing matters of doctrine in Science and Health.
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David J. Talbot (1847-1913) was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, and died in Macon, Georgia. He married Jane E. C. Talbot (b. Hately) in London, England, in 1878 and had six children. He became a naturalized US citizen in 1883. He lived in New York and Illinois where he worked as a Railroad Freight Agent, before moving to Boston, Massachusetts, around 1900, where he worked as a Freight Broker in the Chamber of Commerce. He subsequently moved to Huntington, Long Island, New York, around 1907; then to Savannah, Georgia, in 1908. By 1910 he was living in Columbia, South Carolina. He also worked in Chicago for the Furness steamer line as the general Western agent, and later as the foreign freight agent for the Kansas City Southern.
Talbot wrote to Mary Baker Eddy on December 8, 1900, and her response to him notes the comfort his words gave her, alluding to the ongoing lawsuit brought against her by Josephine Curtis Woodbury. Eddy appended Talbot's letter to her essay "Man and Woman" because she felt it would "speed the cause of Christian Science." Talbot wrote further letters to Eddy over the following decade, referencing matters of doctrine in Science and Health.
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