Early Life and Education
Talbot was born on October 21, 1857 at Cortland, Illinois. His elementary education was in Cortland, and he attended high school in nearby Sycamore. After graduation from high school, he taught in a country school for two years.
He enrolled at Illinois Industrial University (now the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) in 1877 to study civil engineering. He was a brilliant student and also participated in many extracurricular activities. He was secretary, vice president and president of the Philomathean Literary Society, associate editor of the Illini delegate to the Interstate Oratorical Association, class essayist, a leading officer in the student government, and an officer in the Cadet Corps. He graduated from the university in 1881.
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