Ninth Generation

729. Dr. Alvan TALCOTT²⁷¹ was born on 17 Aug 1804 in Vernon, Tolland County, Connecticut. He graduated in 1824 in Yale College. Dr. Alvan, son of Alvan Talcott and PHilomela Root, was born in Vernon, Ct., Aug 17, 1804, married Olive N., daughter of Abel and Anna H. (Baldwin) Chittenden, of Guilford, Ct., March 7, 1831.
Dr. Alvan Talcott is the son of a farmer, and pursued his studies in the fall and winter. He fitted for college at home, and entered the class of 1824, in Yale College, in freshman year. After graduating he engaged for five years in teaching at East Windsor and Guilford, Ct., and at Wilkesbarre, Pa., pursuing at intervals the study of botony and other branches of medicine. In 1829, he entered the office of Dr. Samuel B. Woodward, of Wethersfield, Ct., and after attending two courses of lectures, he received the degree of M. D. from Yale College, in 1831. He commenced the practice of his profrssion in Vernon, Ct., his native town, and in 1842, he removed to Guilford, Ct., where he has continued in the practice of medicine for more than a third of a century (1876). The wife of Dr. Talcott is a sister of the Hon. S. B. Chittenden, of New York. Their thre children are all desceased. Their son, William Henry, was a remarkable schlor, quick and accurate in his studies and fond of reading. He entered the class of 1852, in Yale College, and maintained a high standing in his class, but through failure of his health, was obliged to take a dismission in his sophomore year. He went twice to Europe for the benefit of his health, was lost at sea, in 1856, in a homeward bound New York packet ship, which was never heard from after leaving the coast of England.
The youngest child, Sarah, a daughter of particular sweetness and purity of character and of much promise, and endeared to a wide circle of friends and acquaintances, died after a protracted illness, in 1866, at the age of 24 years.

Dr. Alvan TALCOTT and Olive CHITTENDEN were married on 7 Nov 1831 in Vernon, Tolland County, Connecticut. Olive CHITTENDEN was born in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut. Dr. Alvan TALCOTT and Olive CHITTENDEN had the following children:

1415	i.	William Henry TALCOTT was born on 14 May 1832. He died in Mar 1856.272
1416	ii.	Mary Elizabeth TALCOTT was born on 12 Dec 1836. She died on 27 May 1837.
1417	iii.	Sarah TALCOTT was born on 2 Oct 1841. She died on 11 Mar 1856.