{{Short description|American politician}} {{infobox officeholder | image = Thomas G. Talmage.jpg | caption = Portrait of Talmage from'' A History of Long Island From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, ''1902 | order = 6th | office = Mayor of Brooklyn | term_start = 1845 | term_end = 1845 | predecessor = Joseph Sprague | successor = Francis B. Stryker | office1 = Member of the New York State Assembly | term_start1 = January 1, 1837 | term_end1 = December 31, 1837 | birth_name = Thomas Goyn Talmage | birth_date = {{birth date|1801|10|22}} | birth_place = Somerville, New Jersey | death_date = {{death date and age|1863|05|04|1801|10|22}} | death_place = Brooklyn, New York | party = Democrat | parents = Goyn Talmage<br>Magdalene Terhune | spouse = {{marriage|Dorothy Miller<br>|1823|1834|reason=d}}<br>{{marriage|Sarah Maria Van Brunt<br>|1835|1843|reason=d}}<br>{{marriage|Harriet Jarolemon Stone<br>|1848}} | children = 7, including Tunis | relations = Thomas De Witt Talmage (nephew)<br>John Van Nest Talmage (nephew) }} '''Thomas Goyn Talmage''' (October 22, 1801 – May 4, 1863) was an American politician and Mayor of Brooklyn.
== Early life == Talmage was born on October 22, 1801, in Somerville, New Jersey, to Goyn Talmage and Magdalene ({{nee}} Terhune) Talmage, a descendant of an old Long Island family.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Talmadge|first=Arthur White|url=https://archive.org/details/talmadgetallmadg00intalm/page/199/mode/1up|title=The Talmadge, Tallmadge and Talmage Genealogy|publisher=The Grafton Press|year=1909|location=New York, N.Y.|pages=121, 199–200|via=Internet Archive}}</ref> Among his sisters was Mertine Talmaage, the wife of Edward Patterson and mother of Judge Edward Patterson. Through his brother David Thomas Talmage, he was uncle to clergyman Thomas De Witt Talmage and John Van Nest Talmage.<ref name="Ross1902"/> His father was the fourth son of Maj. Thomas Talmage and Mary ({{nee}} McCoy) Talmage.<ref name="Ross1902"/>
==Career== In 1819, Talmage moved to New York City and began working as a clerk for merchant Abraham Van Ness. From 1823 to 1836, he worked in the wholesale grocery business.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|last=Stiles|first=Henry R.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p3MxAAAAMAAJ|title=A History of the City of Brooklyn|year=1869|volume=II|location=Brooklyn, N.Y.|pages=276–277|author-link=Henry Reed Stiles|via=Google Books}}</ref> In 1827, he was elected Alderman of the First Ward as a Democrat. He initially resided on Stone Street. In 1832, he moved to Greenwich Village in the Ninth Ward.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|last=Ross|first=Peter|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Sa3u_mTb9mcC|title=A History of Long Island, From Its Earliest Settlement To The Present Time|publisher=The Lewis Publishing Company|year=1902|volume=II|pages=108–109|via=Google Books}}</ref> He served in the New York State Assembly in 1837 as a New York County representative.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Hough|first=Franklin B.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E3sFAAAAQAAJ|title=The New York Civil List|publisher=Weed, Parsons & Co.|year=1858|location=Albany, N.Y.|pages=219|author-link=Franklin B. Hough|via=Google Books}}</ref> From 1838 to 1839, he was a member of the New York City Common Council and served as President of the Board of Aldermen.<ref name=":0" />
In 1840, Talmage moved to Brooklyn. He served in that city's board of aldermen from 1842 to 1845, first representing the 8th Ward and then the 6th Ward.<ref name=":1" /> In 1845, he was elected Mayor of Brooklyn, and under his mayoral administration, the Brooklyn City Hall was built. In 1846, Governor Silas Wright appointed him County Judge. He later became Loan Commissioner of the United States Deposit Fund for Kings County.<ref name=":0" /> In the late 1850s, he was an early and major promoter of Prospect Park, managed to get the State Legislature to support the creation of the park, and was one of the first three park commissioners.<ref name=":2" /> After his third marriage, he moved to Gowanus, a neighborhood he helped develop as Mayor. He became President of the Broadway Rail Road Company in 1858, and was a member of the Chamber of Commerce.<ref name=":1" />
==Personal life== In 1823, Talmage married Dorothy Miller (1805–1834), daughter of Col. David Miller and a sister of U.S. Senator from New Jersey, Jacob W. Miller.<ref name=":1" /> Their children were:<ref name="Ross1902">{{cite book |last1=Ross |first1=Peter |title=A History of Long Island: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time |date=1902 |publisher=Lewis publishing Company |pages=104–109 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Sa3u_mTb9mcC&dq=Mary+Louise+Talmage&pg=PA106 |access-date=10 May 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
* Mary Louise Talmage.<ref name="Ross1902"/> * David Miller Talmage (1827–1900),<ref name="DMTObit1900">{{cite news |title=COL. D. M. TALMAGE DEAD. He Was the Builder of the First Horse Railroad to Coney Island |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1900/09/10/archives/in-foreign-lands.html |access-date=10 May 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=10 September 1900}}</ref> who married Sarah Jane Stone, a daughter of Jonas Stone, in 1846.<ref name="Bartlett1918"/><ref name="MrsDimon1936">{{cite news |last1=TIMES |first1=Special to THE NEW YORK |title=MRS. THEODORE D. DIMON; Widow of President of Brooklyn Board of Alderman Dies at 82. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1936/03/18/archives/mrs-theodore-d-dimon-widow-of-president-of-brooklyn-board-of.html |access-date=10 May 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=18 March 1936}}</ref> * William H. Talmage (1829–1873), who married Isabella W. Carothers, a daughter of Jesse Carothers, in 1853. * Tunis Van Pelt Talmage (1832–1909),<ref name="TVPTObit1909">{{cite news |title=TUNIS VAN P. TALMAGE DEAD; While He Was in the Army Brooklyn Made Him Aldermen's President. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1909/11/29/archives/tunis-van-p-tald1age-dead-nvhile-he-was-i1-the_army-b-raoklyn-rlade.html |access-date=10 May 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=29 November 1909}}</ref> who served as supervisor, alderman, and assemblyman, and was twice an unsuccessful candidate for Mayor.<ref name=":2" />
In 1835, he married his second wife, Sarah Maria Van Brunt (1808–1843), a daughter of Cornelius Van Brunt and Jannetje ({{nee}} Adriance) Van Brunt. Their children were:<ref name="Ross1902"/>
* Thomas Adriance Talmage (1837–1861), who married Mary J. Davidson in 1860.<ref name="Ross1902"/> * Jane Elizabeth Talmage (1839–1930), who married the Rev. Henry V. Voorhees in 1859.<ref name="Ross1902"/>
After Sarah died in 1843, he married his third wife, Harriet ({{nee}} Jarolemon) Stone (d. 1892), daughter of wealthy Judge Tunis Jarolemon and widow of Jonas Stone, in 1848. Harriet was the mother of Sarah Jane Stone, the wife of Talmage's eldest son David.<ref name="Bartlett1918">{{cite book |last1=Bartlett |first1=Joseph Gardner |title=Gregory Stone Genealogy: Ancestry and Descendants of Dea. Gregory Stone of Cambridge, Mass., 1320-1917 |date=1918 |publisher=Stone Family Association |isbn=978-0-598-66500-3 |page=467 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZxsVAAAAYAAJ&dq=Harriet+Jarolemon+Stone+Talmage&pg=PA467 |access-date=10 May 2022 |language=en}}</ref> They had one child:<ref name=":0" />
* Frederick Tunis Talmage (1849–1874).<ref name="Ross1902"/>
Talmage died at his home in Brooklyn from pneumonia on May 4, 1863.<ref>{{Cite news|date=4 May 1863|title=Death of Hon. Thomas G. Talmage|volume=22|page=2|work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle|issue=104|location=Brooklyn, N.Y.|url=https://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/50398485/|via=Brooklyn Public Library: Historical Newspapers}}</ref> He was buried in Green-Wood Cemetery.
== References == {{Reflist|30em}}
== External links ==
* ''[http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tallmadge-tannehill.html#930.18.20 The Political Graveyard]'' * [https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6023137/thomas-goyn-talmage Thomas G. Talmage] at ''Find a Grave''
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