Thomas G. Talmage

Talmage was born on October 22, 1801, in Somerville, New Jersey, to Goyn Talmage and Magdalene ({{nee}} Terhune) Talmage, a descendant of an old Long Island family.{{Cite book|last=Talmadge|first=Arthur White|url=https://archive.org/details/talmadgetallmadg00intalm/page/199/mode/1up|title=The Talmadge, Tallmadge and Talmage Genealogy|publisher=The Grafton Press|year=1909|location=New York, N.Y.|pages=121, 199–200|via=Internet Archive}} Among his sisters was Mertine Talmaage, the wife of Edward Patterson and mother of Judge Edward Patterson. Through his brother David Thomas Talmage, he was uncle to clergyman Thomas De Witt Talmage and John Van Nest Talmage. His father was the fourth son of Maj. Thomas Talmage and Mary ({{nee}} McCoy) Talmage.

In 1819, Talmage moved to New York City and began working as a clerk for merchant Abraham Van Ness. From 1823 to 1836, he worked in the wholesale grocery business.{{Cite book|last=Stiles|first=Henry R.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p3MxAAAAMAAJ|title=A History of the City of Brooklyn|year=1869|volume=II|location=Brooklyn, N.Y.|pages=276–277|author-link=Henry Reed Stiles|via=Google Books}} In 1827, he was elected Alderman of the First Ward as a Democrat. He initially resided on Stone Street. In 1832, he moved to Greenwich Village in the Ninth Ward.{{Cite book|last=Ross|first=Peter|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Sa3u_mTb9mcC|title=A History of Long Island, From Its Earliest Settlement To The Present Time|publisher=The Lewis Publishing Company|year=1902|volume=II|pages=108–109|via=Google Books}} He served in the New York State Assembly in 1837 as a New York County representative.{{Cite book|last=Hough|first=Franklin B.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E3sFAAAAQAAJ|title=The New York Civil List|publisher=Weed, Parsons & Co.|year=1858|location=Albany, N.Y.|pages=219|author-link=Franklin B. Hough|via=Google Books}} From 1838 to 1839, he was a member of the New York City Common Council and served as President of the Board of Aldermen.

In 1840, Talmage moved to Brooklyn. He served in that city's board of aldermen from 1842 to 1845, first representing the 8th Ward and then the 6th Ward. In 1845, he was elected Mayor of Brooklyn, and under his mayoral administration, the Brooklyn City Hall was built. In 1846, Governor Silas Wright appointed him County Judge. He later became Loan Commissioner of the United States Deposit Fund for Kings County. In the late 1850s, he was an early and major promoter of Prospect Park, managed to get the State Legislature to support the creation of the park, and was one of the first three park commissioners. After his third marriage, he moved to Gowanus, a neighborhood he helped develop as Mayor. He became President of the Broadway Rail Road Company in 1858, and was a member of the Chamber of Commerce.

In 1823, Talmage married Dorothy Miller (1805–1834), daughter of Col. David Miller and a sister of U.S. Senator from New Jersey, Jacob W. Miller. Their children were:{{cite book |last1=Ross |first1=Peter |title=A History of Long Island: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time |date=1902 |publisher=Lewis publishing Company |pages=104–109 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Sa3u_mTb9mcC&dq=Mary+Louise+Talmage&pg=PA106 |access-date=10 May 2022 |language=en}}

• Mary Louise Talmage.
• David Miller Talmage (1827–1900),{{cite news |title=COL. D. M. TALMAGE DEAD. He Was the Builder of the First Horse Railroad to Coney Island |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1900/09/10/archives/in-foreign-lands.html |access-date=10 May 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=10 September 1900}} who married Sarah Jane Stone, a daughter of Jonas Stone, in 1846.{{cite news |last1=TIMES |first1=Special to THE NEW YORK |title=MRS. THEODORE D. DIMON; Widow of President of Brooklyn Board of Alderman Dies at 82. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1936/03/18/archives/mrs-theodore-d-dimon-widow-of-president-of-brooklyn-board-of.html |access-date=10 May 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=18 March 1936}}
• William H. Talmage (1829–1873), who married Isabella W. Carothers, a daughter of Jesse Carothers, in 1853.
• Tunis Van Pelt Talmage (1832–1909),{{cite news |title=TUNIS VAN P. TALMAGE DEAD; While He Was in the Army Brooklyn Made Him Aldermen's President. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1909/11/29/archives/tunis-van-p-tald1age-dead-nvhile-he-was-i1-the_army-b-raoklyn-rlade.html |access-date=10 May 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=29 November 1909}} who served as supervisor, alderman, and assemblyman, and was twice an unsuccessful candidate for Mayor.

In 1835, he married his second wife, Sarah Maria Van Brunt (1808–1843), a daughter of Cornelius Van Brunt and Jannetje ({{nee}} Adriance) Van Brunt. Their children were:

• Thomas Adriance Talmage (1837–1861), who married Mary J. Davidson in 1860.
• Jane Elizabeth Talmage (1839–1930), who married the Rev. Henry V. Voorhees in 1859.

After Sarah died in 1843, he married his third wife, Harriet ({{nee}} Jarolemon) Stone (d. 1892), daughter of wealthy Judge Tunis Jarolemon and widow of Jonas Stone, in 1848. Harriet was the mother of Sarah Jane Stone, the wife of Talmage's eldest son David.{{cite book |last1=Bartlett |first1=Joseph Gardner |title=Gregory Stone Genealogy: Ancestry and Descendants of Dea. Gregory Stone of Cambridge, Mass., 1320-1917 |date=1918 |publisher=Stone Family Association |isbn=978-0-598-66500-3 |page=467 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZxsVAAAAYAAJ&dq=Harriet+Jarolemon+Stone+Talmage&pg=PA467 |access-date=10 May 2022 |language=en}} They had one child:

• Frederick Tunis Talmage (1849–1874).

Talmage died at his home in Brooklyn from pneumonia on May 4, 1863.{{Cite news|date=4 May 1863|title=Death of Hon. Thomas G. Talmage|volume=22|page=2|work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle|issue=104|location=Brooklyn, N.Y.|url=https://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/50398485/|via=Brooklyn Public Library: Historical Newspapers}} He was buried in Green-Wood Cemetery.

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• [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tallmadge-tannehill.html#930.18.20 The Political Graveyard]
• [https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6023137/thomas-goyn-talmage Thomas G. Talmage] at Find a Grave

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