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Caption: Dedication - Talbot Lab
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BIOGRAPHY OF ARTHUR NEWELL TALBOT Prepared and presented six months after his eightieth birthday was born October 21, 1857, at /=\ Cortland, Illinois. His father, Charles A. Talbot, was born in London, England, and his mother, Harriet Newell Talbot, was born in Brockville, Ontario. Both had been brought as children to the new settlements in northern Illinois in the tide of immigration, principally from New York and New England, which began after the close of the Blackhawk War. Young Talbot's early life was lived under pioneer conditions among the sturdy people who were developing new homes in a prairie land. His early education was in the school in Cortland, a village about 55 miles west of Chicago, and in the high school at Sycamore. While he was yet a young lad his grandfather Newell had recognized his aptitude in mathematical matters and encouraged the boy by giving him problems beyond his age, such, for example, as the calculation of the time of sunrise on a given day. After completing his high school course he taught a country district school for two years. In 1877 he entered the University of Illinois, then known as the Illinois Industrial University, to study civil engineering. The University at that time had about 300 students of collegiate grade. Here he came in contact with Ira Osborn Baker who had begun his long career as a teacher of civil engineering three years earlier and was already beginning to attract attention. Talbot was a brilliant student, indeed his scholastic average remained the record for many years. However, he did not devote all of his time and energy to study but was active in extra curricular activities. He was Secretary, Vice President, and President of Philomathean Literary Society, Associate Editor of the Mini, delegate to the Interstate Oratorical Association, Class Essayist, a leading officer in the student governA RTHUR NEWELL TALBOT . 33 •
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