He continued teaching there after he had undertaken advanced studies in the eastern United States. He first began teaching at Brigham Young Academy when he was still seventeen. In 1897 Elder Talmage went to a geographical meeting in Russia under the auspices of the Scottish Geographical society and then from there traveled on a geological expedition that crossed the Ural Mountains.Įlder Talmage taught science at Brigham Young Academy. Academic careerĮlder Talmage was elected to life membership in several learned societies, and for many years was a Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society (London), Fellow of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society (Edinburgh), Fellow of the Geological Society (London), Fellow of the Geological Society of America, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Associate of the Philosophical Society of Great Britain, and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Talmage (1889-1956) followed his example and became a geologist. Īmong their children was John Talmage who wrote a biography of his father. FamilyĮlder Talmage married Mary May Booth on the Jin the Manti Temple.

from Illinois Wesleyan University in 1896. degree from Lehigh University and he received a Ph.D. Though a special student and not a candidate for a degree, he passed during his single year of residence nearly all the examinations in the four-year course and later graduated and in 1883-1884 he was engaged in advanced work at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. His early predilection was for the sciences, and in 1882-1883 he took selected courses in chemistry and geology at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. In 1881, Talmage received a collegiate diploma from the BYA Scientific Department, the first such diploma to be issued. In Provo he studied the Normal Course at Brigham Young Academy, having as one of his teachers Karl G. Įlder Talmage moved with his family to Provo, Utah in 1877. He was baptized into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at age 10 on June 15, 1873. Elder Talmage grew up in Hungerford, England.

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