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Joseph C. Talbot

The Rt. Rev. Joseph Cruickshank Talbot, D.D., was a missionary bishop of the Episcopal Church and the third bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Indiana

He was born September 5, 1816 in Alexandria, Virginia to Quaker parents.

In 1860, he was consecrated missionary bishop of the North-West, a vast area comprising much of the present Midwestern United States.

In 1863, he founded Brownell-Talbot School in Omaha, Nebraska.

He died January 15, 1883.

source: The New York Times obituary, published January 16, 1883

-- Journal of the proceedings of the ... annual convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Indiana

Episcopal Church. Diocese of Indiana. Convention The Diocese, 1888

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THE EPISCOPATE OF THE RIGHT REV. JOSEPH C. TALBOT, D.D., LL. D. (Cantab.).

by Edward Olcott.

This paper is not intended to be so much a memor of the life of Bishop Talbot, as a review of his Episcopate, and an account and summary of his official acts, and the work accomplished in the Diocese, during the 17 years that he was its Bishop. And, in obtaining this information, I have had to rely almost entirely on the addresses of the Bishop to different conventions, and I have in many instances used his words in giving the accounts of his work, in its varied forms, and in different parts of the Diocese.

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The Right Rev. Joseph Cruickshank Talbot was of Quaker parentage, being born in Alexandria, Virginia, on the 5th day of September, 1816.

The sacred ministry was not at first, nor for many years, his aim in life, but he entered upon a mercantile carreer, and after that became connected with a bank, in both of which enterprises he was most sucessful.

In the midst of this busy life he determined to enter the sacred ministry, and without the usual collegiate or theological course preparatory to Holy Orders (having been educated at Pierpoint Academy, Alexandria, VA), began to study under the bishop of Kentucky, in the city of Louisville, to which place he had removed in 1830, and where he was engaged in banking. He was baptized in Christ Church, Louisville, in 1837, by Bishop Smith, and became a candidate for Holy Orders in 1841, pursuing his studies under the Bishop's directions

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. He entered at once upon his life's work as a clergyman (though for a time after

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St. Barnabas' Day, June 11, 1872, the Bishop was requested to take part in the semi-centennial celebration of the founding of Christ Church, Louisville, Ky., the church in which he says "I was baptized and confirmed and in which indeed I heard for the first time in my life the Holy Services of our Book of Prayer, and learned to love them."

The convention of 1881 was the last the good bishop ever presided over, for in 1882 he addresses them as follows:

"Though I am not able to preside over all its deliberations, I come at its assembling to greet you in the name of the Lord, and to bid you welcome to this Cathedral Church and city. I proceed to give you an account of my limited work since the last Convention. Within a month of its close, as you are aware, I was suddenly smitten with illness, which, after several weeks of total inability for any occupation, left me so prostrated as to render the further discharge of my duties impossible."

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Immediately after this Convention the Bishop went to Delafield, Wisconsin, where he hoped to regain his health among old friends, and in its bracing climate, but was called home July 24 by a telegram of the sickness of his wife, who died August 7. This was a great blow to the bishop, weak and worn out as he was....

He died the 15th of January, 1884 [sic], at 6 p.m.

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BISHOPS OF THE DIOCESE OF THE RIO GRANDE

Joseph Cruickshank Talbot

(1863-1866) overseer

Born in Alexandria, Virginia, September 5, 1816, and educated at Pierpont Academy, Alexandria. Moved to Louisville, Kentucky, in 1835, where he was engaged in business for several years. Baptized in Christ Church, Louisville in 1837, and was confirmed by the Bishop of Kentucky the same year. In 1841 he became a candidate for Holy Orders, and studied under the Bishop's direction. He was ordered deacon in Christ Church, Louisville, September 5, 1846, by the Rt. Rev. Benjamin B. Smith, and ordered Priest by Bishop Smith at Christ Church, September 6, 1848. While in deacon's orders, he organized St. John's Church, Louisville, and became its rector when advanced to the priesthood. In 1853, he moved to Indiana and became the rector of Christ Church, Indianapolis. In 1859, he was elected by the House of Bishops as Bishop of the Diocese of the Northwest, a new jurisdition, including Nebraska, the Dakotas, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Montana and Idaho, an area of about 900,000 square miles. He was consecrated in Christ Church, Indianapolis, February 15, 1860. In 1865, he was elected Assistant Bishop of Indiana, and was translated in October of that year. He became diocesan in 1872.

He visited New Mexico briefly in the summer of 1863 when it was part of a vast jurisdiction, stretching from Canada to Mexico, known as the Diocese of the Northwest. The bishop made stops at Ft. Union near Las Vegas, Santa Fe (where he held services and celebrated what was reportedly the first Episcopal Communion Service in the territory) and Taos. Of particular interest was Talbot's contact with Padre Jose' Antonio Martinez, defrocked by Roman Catholic Bishop Lamy for setting up a chapel and services of his own - using the Episcopal Prayer Book, recently published in Spanish. Talbot's departure left the area north of El Paso without permanent oversight for another seventeen years. He died on January 15, 1883, in Indianapolis.