John Van Nest Talmage
{{Infobox person
| name = John Van Nest Talmage
| image =John_Van_Nest_Talmage.png
| caption = Missionary to China
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|spouses = (1)Abby F. Woodruff (2)Mary Eliza Van Deventer
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1819|8|18}}
| birth_place = Somerville, New Jersey
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1892|8|19|1819|8|18}}
| death_place = Bound Brook, New Jersey
|relations = Thomas De Witt Talmage, brother
|parents=David Talmage
Catharine Van Neste
}}
John Van Nest Talmage (18 August 1819 – 19 August 1892), was a Protestant Christian missionary to Amoy, Fujian, 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 Reformed tradition, migrated to North America from the Netherlands. 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
- {{cite book |last=Van Nest Talmage |first=John |author-link=John Van Nest Talmage |title=Tn̂g-oē Hoan-jī Chho͘-ha̍k |year=1852 |oclc=66646231 |postscript=: an early book on Pe̍h-oē-jī, the Latin orthography for Southern Min Chinese}}
- {{cite book |last=Van Nest Talmage |first=John |author-link=John Van Nest Talmage |title=Chinese-English Dictionary |year=1885 |postscript=: a dictionary of Amoy vernacular and English |author-mask=5}}
- {{cite book |last=Van Nest Talmage |first=John |author-link=John Van Nest Talmage |author-mask=5 |title=New Dictionary in the Amoy Dialect |year=1894 |oclc=41548900 }}
He is memorialized in the classic work Forty Years in China,{{Cite book |publisher = Board of Publication of the Reformed Church in America |title = Forty Years in South China: A Biography of the Rev. John Van Nest Talmage, D.D |url = https://archive.org/details/fortyyearsinsout00johnrich |author = John Gerardus Fagg |publication-date = 1894 |oclc = 2009683 |ol=20609556M}} which was written by Rev. John Gerardus Fagg in 1894, a biography genre.
References
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External links
- [http://www.amoymagic.com/AM_Talmage.htm Talmage Biography (Pitcher, 1893)]
- {{Gutenberg author |id=7085| name=John Van Nest Talmage}}
- {{Internet Archive author |sname=John Van Nest Talmage}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20000526002419/http://geocities.com/Vienna/2406/40YIC/Contents.html Talmage Biography-Forty Years in South China(Fagg, 1894)]
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Category:People from Bound Brook, New Jersey
Category:People from Somerville, New Jersey
Category:American people of Dutch descent
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Category:Christian missionaries in Fujian
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Category:American Protestant missionaries