Sacramento County
Biographies
RICHARD P.
TALBOT
RICHARD P. TALBOT.--An attorney not only well-versed in jurisprudence, but particularly familiar with the practice of law in California is Richard P. Talbot, a native of Missouri, where he was born at Fayette, in Howard County, on March 21, 1873. His father, William Boone Talbot had married Miss Maria Payne, a gifted and charming woman who passed to her eternal reward when our subject was two years old. Mr. Talbot is still living, in comfortable retirement at Tulsa, Okla.
Richad P. Talbot attended the ordinary public schools, and then matriculated at Central College, at Fayette. He next studied law in Senator Samuel C. Major’s office, in Fayette, and in 1895 was admitted to the practice of law, in Missouri, and for several years had an office at Fayette. In 1889 he came out to Arizona and settled at Prescott; and for sixteen years he practiced there. He was also the district attorney for Yavapai County for a term; but in 1915 he decided to leave the state and remove to Sacramento, and since March 15 of that year he has been an honored member of the California Bar. His knowledge of the practice of law in other states has not only enabled him to be of greater service to his patrons, but has often made it possible for him to render a real service to some colleague more limited in experience; Mr. Talbot’s urbanity and willingness at all times to do the other fellow a good turn have made him a valued source of counsel, so that he is popular among all who have any dealings with him. He belongs to the bar associations of the state, the county and the city.
A nephew of Rev. Dr. Ethelbert Talbot, the distinguished Episcopal Bishop of Pennsylvania, Richard P. Talbot was married, on December 16, 1902, to Miss Stella M. Jackson, of Bartow, Florida, the ceremony taking place at Bartow. One daughter, Miss Dorothy, has blessed this union. In fraternal affiliation, Mr. Talbot is an Elk; and in politics he is a Democrat.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With
Biographical Sketches, Page 892.
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.