# John Van Nest Talmage

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John Van Nest Talmage Missionary to China Born (1819-08-18)August 18, 1819 Somerville, New Jersey Died August 19, 1892(1892-08-19) (aged 73) Bound Brook, New Jersey Spouses (1)Abby F. Woodruff (2)Mary Eliza Van Deventer Parent(s) David Talmage Catharine Van Neste Relatives Thomas De Witt Talmage, brother

**John Van Nest Talmage** (18 August 1819 – 19 August 1892), was a [Protestant](/source/Protestant) [Christian](/source/Christianity) [missionary](/source/Missionary) to [Amoy](/source/Xiamen), [Fujian](/source/Fujian), China. He was sent by the [Reformed Church in America](/source/Reformed_Church_in_America) from 1847 to 1890.

## Biography

His younger brother [Thomas De Witt Talmage](/source/Thomas_De_Witt_Talmage) was also a clergyman, and his family, within the [Reformed tradition](/source/Reformed_Church), migrated to [North America](/source/North_America) from the [Netherlands](/source/Netherlands). His father's family had emigrated from England, and were the founders of the towns of South Hampton, and East Hampton in New York.

## Works

- Van Nest Talmage, John (1852). *Tn̂g-oē Hoan-jī Chho͘-ha̍k*. [OCLC](/source/OCLC_(identifier)) [66646231](https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/66646231): an early book on [Pe̍h-oē-jī](/source/Pe%CC%8Dh-o%C4%93-j%C4%AB), the Latin orthography for [Southern Min](/source/Southern_Min) Chinese{{[cite book](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_book)}}: CS1 maint: postscript ([link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_postscript))

- ————— (1885). *Chinese-English Dictionary*: a dictionary of [Amoy vernacular](/source/Amoy_dialect) and English{{[cite book](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_book)}}: CS1 maint: postscript ([link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_postscript))

- ————— (1894). *New Dictionary in the Amoy Dialect*. [OCLC](/source/OCLC_(identifier)) [41548900](https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/41548900).

He is memorialized in the classic work *Forty Years in China*,[1] which was written by Rev. [John Gerardus Fagg](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Gerardus_Fagg&action=edit&redlink=1) in 1894, a biography genre.

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** John Gerardus Fagg (1894). [*Forty Years in South China: A Biography of the Rev. John Van Nest Talmage, D.D*](https://archive.org/details/fortyyearsinsout00johnrich). Board of Publication of the Reformed Church in America. [OCLC](/source/OCLC_(identifier)) [2009683](https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/2009683). [OL](/source/OL_(identifier)) [20609556M](https://openlibrary.org/books/OL20609556M).

## External links

- [Talmage Biography (Pitcher, 1893)](http://www.amoymagic.com/AM_Talmage.htm)

- [Works by John Van Nest Talmage](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/7085) at [Project Gutenberg](/source/Project_Gutenberg)

- [Works by or about John Van Nest Talmage](https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28%28subject%3A%22Talmage%2C%20John%20Van%20Nest%22%20OR%20subject%3A%22John%20Van%20Nest%20Talmage%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Talmage%2C%20John%20Van%20Nest%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22John%20Van%20Nest%20Talmage%22%20OR%20creator%3A%22Talmage%2C%20J%2E%20V%2E%20N%2E%22%20OR%20title%3A%22John%20Van%20Nest%20Talmage%22%20OR%20description%3A%22John%20Van%20Nest%20Talmage%22%29%20OR%20%28%221819-1892%22%20AND%20Talmage%29%29%20AND%20%28-mediatype:software%29) at the [Internet Archive](/source/Internet_Archive)

- [Talmage Biography-Forty Years in South China(Fagg, 1894)](https://web.archive.org/web/20000526002419/http://geocities.com/Vienna/2406/40YIC/Contents.html)

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