Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Talmage Kansas.

Talmage Kansas, Dickinson County.
Date is unknown.

Talmage, a little town in Dickinson county, is located in Willow Dale township on Mud creek and on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R. 7 miles northwest of Abilene, the county seat. It has a bank, a number of stores, telegraph and express offices, and a money order postoffice with one rural route. The population in 1910 was 200.

Talmage opened it's Post Office on December 22, 1887.

1900, Census for Willowdale Township.

Willowsale township map, shows all the land owners, Talmage is in section 12.

1901, Farmers who used Talmage as their P. O. address.

R. W. Edwards, Farmer, Township Flora, P. O. Talmage, came to county 1880.

John Fulton, Farmer, Township Cheever, P. O. Talmade, came to county 1877.

John Killen, Farmer, Township Willowdale, P. O. Talmage, came to county 1885.

Homer Martin, Farmer, Township Flora, P. O. Talmage, came to county 1873.

T. C. Stewart, Framer, Township Willowdale, came to county 1880.

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