Talmage Kansas.

Talmage, Kansas.

Publish date 1901.

Date picture taken is unknown.

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. 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 post ofifice with one rural route. The population in 1910 was 200.

Map of Talmage 1901.
The map shows the dividing line.

What the information above doesn't tell you is that Talmage is in two townships, Talmage main street is the dividing line.  The east side of the street is in Buckeye township while the west side is in Willow Dale township, also spelled Willowdale.

Talmage Post office open on December 22, 1887, and was still running in 1961.  First post master was John Fulton.

People Who Used Talmage As Their Post Office Address.

 

J. A. Berry, Farmer came to Dickinson county in 1884, settled in section 21, of Willowdale township. 

 

W. R. Edwards, Farmer came to Dickinson county in 1880, settled in section 36, of Flora township.

 

John Fulton, Farmer came to Dickinson county in 1877, settled in section 32, of Cheever township.

 

H. G. Hoffman, Merchant, came to Dickinson county in 1879, settled in Talmage.

 

John Killen, Farmer, came to Dickinson in 1885, settled in section 4, of Willowdale township.

 

Homer Martin, Farmer, came to Dickinson county in 1873, settled in section 36, of Flora township.

 

T. C. Stewart, Farmer, came to Dickinson county in 1880, settled in section 8, of Willowdale township.

 

F. Sullivan, Farmer, came to Dickinson county in 1873, settled in section 25, of Willowdale township.

 

R. G. Watt, Farmer, came to Dickinson county in 1879, settled in section 2, of Willowdale township.

 

William D. Fulton, Grain and Coal, came to Dickinson county 1877, settled in Talmage.

 

Picture publish date 1921.

 

William G. Baldwin, Farmer, came to Dickinson county in 1883, settled in section 24, of Cheever township.  His farm was called ( Sunny Bank Stock Farm ), he owned 519 acres.

 

 

 

 

W. D. Fulton home, publish date 1921.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Talmage Post Masters through Time.

 

Mrs. Laura A. Fields	Postmaster
Miss Elsie M. Jones	Acting Postmaster	03/31/1952
Mr. Clare S. Kner	Postmaster	03/25/1954
Frank E. Coup	Acting Postmaster	05/31/1967
Frank E. Coup	Postmaster	02/20/1971
Judith Elaine Coup	Officer-In-Charge	05/29/1987
Edward L. Hoffhines	Postmaster	08/01/1987
Katherine A. Coup	Officer-In-Charge	04/04/1990
Norma R. Turner	Postmaster	06/02/1990
Twila G. Holt	Officer-In-Charge	09/30/1992
Theresa L. Callahan	Postmaster	09/17/1994