DAVID C. TALBOTT, one of the leading farmers of Woodside township, is a native of this county and is well and favorably known throughout this section. He is a son of the late Dr. Fletcher Talbott who was for many years a prominent physician of this part of the State. He was a native of Shelby County, Ky., and married Ruth Gratton, also of Kentucky birth. They became pioneers of Cass County, Ill., where they lived two or three years. About 1840 they came to Sangamon County and settled in Gardner Township, where they lived several years. They subsequently removed to Springfield, where they passed their remaining days. The Doctor practiced medicine very successfully in connection with farming until he was seventy years old, winning a high reputation as a skillful physician. He was a prominent figure in public life, taking quite an active part in the management of the affairs of the county. He held the office of Supervisor for several years and proved to be a valuable civic official. Both he and his wife were stanch members of the Methodist Episcopal Church for a long term of years and were greatly beloved for their many acts and charitable deeds.

Our subject was one of seven children, six sons and one daughter, and was the second in order of birth. He was born in Gardner Township, August 1, 1843, was reared in this county and educated in its schools. He remained with his father until he was married October 18, 1878, to Miss Elizabeth Perkins, a daughter of Henry and Anna M. (Brown) Perkins, natives respectively of Maryland and Washington, D.C. They died in Maryland. Mrs. Talbott is the eldest of four children, two sons and two daughters, and was born on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, August 7, 1843.

Mr. and Mrs. Talbott passed the first ten years of their married life in Curran Township, and at the expiration of that time came to Woodside township, and settled on section 15. Mr. Talbott has always devoted himself to farming and stock raising and is considered one of the most intelligent men of his class in this community. He has his farm in excellent order, its well-tilled fields yielding him abundant harvests, and everything about the place shows thrift and good management on the part of the owner. His farm is well stocked and he has engaged quite extensively in raising cattle and swine for the markets.

Mr. and Mrs. Talbott have made for themselves a home where comfort reigns and hospitality abides. They are people of genuine worth, whose characters command respect and their many pleasant personal qualities attract to them the regard of their neighbors and numerous friends. Four children have come to them in their happy wedded life, named as follows: Walter A., Robert C., Henry F., and Anna R. Mr. Talbott gives his political allegiance to the Democratic party, while religiously both he and his good wife are members in high standing of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

A portrait of Mr. Talbott accompanies this sketch.