John Van Nest Talmage (18 August 1819 – 19 August 1892), was a Protestant Christian missionarytoAmoy, Fujian, China. He was sent by the Reformed Church in America from 1847 to 1890.
John Van Nest Talmage
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Missionary to China
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| Born | (1819-08-18)August 18, 1819 |
| Died | August 19, 1892(1892-08-19) (aged 73) |
| Spouses | (1)Abby F. Woodruff (2)Mary Eliza Van Deventer |
| Parent(s) | David Talmage Catharine Van Neste |
| Relatives | Thomas De Witt Talmage, brother |
His younger brother Thomas De Witt Talmage was also a clergyman, and his family, within the Reformed tradition, migrated to North America from the Netherlands. His father's family had emigrated from England, and were the founders of the towns of South Hampton, and East Hampton in New York.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link){{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)He is memorialized in the classic work Forty Years in China,[1] which was written by Rev. John Gerardus Fagg in 1894, a biography genre.