George Frederick Talbot

George Frederick Talbot (April 16, 1859 – January 16, 1938) was a justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada from 1903 to 1915.

Early life, education, and career Born at Ledyard, Connecticut, Talbot came from Colonial and Revolutionary ancestry of English, Scotch and Irish descent. His father was Henry Monroe Talbot, and his mother was Myra Ann Ayer, daughter of Colonel George Ayer.

As a child, he was brought by his mother to California, by way of Panama, his father having previously moved there. He was educated in the common schools of California in 1868, and at the age of nine, he went with his father and others by wagons from California to Elko County, Nevada. He attended a log school house in Nevada in 1869, 1870 and 1871, and in Connecticut from 1872 to 1875. At the age of sixteen, he "went into the world for himself", working on farms in Connecticut and Nevada to earn money with which to complete his education. the U.S. Supreme Court, in the 1908 case of Farrell v. Lockhart, modified its views to conform with the reasoning provided by Talbot in Nash.

Later life and death Following his court service, Talbot served as a master in chancery presiding over a Truckee River water rights dispute, and as president of the Nevada Historical Society, and as a member of the Board of Regents of the University of Nevada.

Talbot died in a hospital in Los Angeles at the age of 79, from injuries caused by a fall in the street.