John Van Nest Talmage

John Van Nest Talmage

Missionary to China
Born (1819-08-18)August 18, 1819
Somerville, New Jersey
Died August 19, 1892(1892-08-19) (aged 73)
Bound Brook, New Jersey
Parent(s) David Talmage
Catharine Van Neste
Relatives Thomas De Witt Talmage, brother

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

He is memorialized in the classic work Forty Years in China,[1] which was written by Rev. John Gerardus Fagg in 1894, a biography genre.

References

  1. John Gerardus Fagg (1894). Forty Years in South China: A Biography of the Rev. John Van Nest Talmage, D.D. Board of Publication of the Reformed Church in America. OCLC 2009683. OL 20609556M.

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