JAMES E. TALMAGE

'James Edward Talmage' (September 21 1862–July 27 1933) born in Hungerford, Berkshire, England, was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1911 until his death in 1933.

Contents

Early Life

Family

Academic Career

Religious writtings

Political involvement

Religious offices

Honors

Published works

Notes

External links

Early Life

Talmage grew up in Hungerford, England. He was baptized into the LDS Church in 1873. He moved with his family to Provo, Utah. In Provo he studied at Brigham Young Academy, having as one of his teachers Karl G. Maeser.
Talmage also completed the Normal Course at Brigham Young Academy, at the time the only course the institution offered at the collegiate level.^[1]

Family

Talmage married Mary May Booth on the June 14, 1888. Among their children was John Talmage who wrote a biography of his father.
His son Sterling B. Talmage (1889-1956) followed his example and became a geologist. http://www.lib.utah.edu/spc/mss/accn724/accn724.html

Academic Career

Talmage studied chemistry and geology at Lehigh University, Johns Hopkins University, and Illinois Wesleyan University for nonresident work. Talmage was elected to life membership in several learned societies, and for many years was a Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society (London), Fellow of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society (Edinburgh), Fellow of the Geological Society (London), Fellow of the Geological Society of America, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Associate of the Philosophical Society of Great Britain, or Victoria Institute, and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
He taught science at Brigham Young Academy and served as president of the University of Utah.
In 1909 Talmage was serving as the director of the Deseret Museum. He went to Detroit in Novemeber of that year to participate in diggings connected with general Scotford-Soper-Savage relics craze that involved the finding of supposed ancient relics in much of Michigan.^[2] Talmage would go on to denounce these findings as a forgery in the September 1911 edition of the Deseret Museum Bulletin in an article entitled "The Michigan Relics: A Story of Forgery and Deception".

Religious writtings

He was the author of several religious books such as ''Jesus the Christ'', ''The House of the Lord'', ''The Great Apostasy'' and ''The Articles of Faith.'' These books are an effort to clarify LDS doctrine and are still widely read by Latter-day Saints (see Bibliography below).

Political involvement

Talmage also went to Washington D.C. to testify in the Smoot Hearings

Religious offices

Talmage became a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in 1911. He died in 1933.

Honors

The Math Building at Brigham Young University is named after Talmage. There is also a building on the University of Utah named after him.

Published works

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★ ''The Essential James E. Talmage'', Signature Books, Salt Lake City, 1997, ISBN 1-56085-018-3

★ ''The House of the Lord'', Signature Books, Salt Lake City, 1998, ISBN 1-56085-114-7 (reprint of the first edition)

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★ ''Latter-Day Revelations: Selections from the Book of Doctrine and Covenants of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints'', Deseret Book Company, Salt Lake City, 1915

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★ ''The Philosophy of "Mormonism"'', Kessinger Publishing, 2004, ISBN 1-4191-8364-8

★ ''The Vitality of Mormonism'', Deseret Book Company, Salt Lake City, 1919.

Notes

1. http://db3-sql.staff.library.utah.edu/lucene/archive/null/Acc0002.xml
2. Richard B. Stamps, "Tools Leave Marks: Material Analysis of the Scotford-Soper-Savage Michigan Relics" in ''BYU Studies'' Vol. 40 (2001) no. 3 p. 212.

External links

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★ ''The Great Apostasy'' [1]

★ James E. Talmage Grampa Bill

★ Utah History Encyclopedia http://www.media.utah.edu/UHE/t/TALMAGE,JAMES.html