A History of Kentucky, Embracing Gleanings, Reminiscences, Antiquities,
Natural Curiosities, Statistics, and Biographical Sketches of Pioneers,
Soldiers, Jurists, Lawyers, Statesmen, Divines, Mechanics, Farmers,
Merchants, and other leading men of all occupations and pursuits by
William B. Allen, Bradley & Gilbert, Louisville, Ky., 1872.  Reprinted
1967 by the Green County Historical Society. pp. 348-349. Green County.

     Isham Talbot was also admitted to the Greensburg bar at the August
Court, 1794, being then just twenty-one years of age.  He was born in the
county of Bedford, State of Virginia, in 1773.  His father emigrated to
Kentucky while Isham was quite a youth, and settled near Harrodsburg,
Kentucky, in Mercer County.  Young Talbot became a good scholar, having
been sent to the best schools in Harrodsburg; but, beside this, he
acquired, without the aid of teachers, a respectable knowledge of the
ancient and some of the modern languages.  On arriving at manhood he
studied law with the distinguished Colonel George Nicholas, and commenced
the practice of his profession in the town of Versailles, Woodford County.
 Soon afterward he removed to Frankfort, and entered the list with the
most distinguished lawyers of Kentucky who adorned the bar at that day,
and was generally regarded as one of the brightest in the galaxy of
illustrious names.  In 1812 Mr. Talbot was elected to the Senate of
Kentucky from Franklin County, and continued in that office until his
election to the United States Senate, in 1815, to fill the vacancy
occasioned by the resignation of Hon. Jesse Bledsoe.  In 1820 he was
re-elected to the Senate, and served in that body until the 4th of March,
1825.  Mr. Talbot was a true patriot, and one of the most eloquent of
statesmen.  He died at his residence (Melrose), near Frankfort, on the
27th of September, 1837.

Talbot Nicholas Bledsoe
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Bedford-VA Mercer-KY Vesailles-Woodford-KY Frankfort-Franklin-KY

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