Talcott was born in
Vernon, Connecticut on 22 May 1836, part of the prominent Talcott family. Her mother and father died when she was young, and so she was educated at the
Sarah Porter School in
Farmington, Connecticut. She would eventually attend State Normal School (now
Central Connecticut State University) in
New Britain, eventually returning to Farmington to teach at the Sarah Porter School. She identified as a member of the
Congregational church. In 1873, Talcott volunteered her services to the
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions as a missionary to the
Kobe foreign settlement in
Kobe,
Japan (which had recently undergone the
Meiji Restoration), arriving in March with two other single women; Talcott was thirty-seven at the time, and thus considered relatively old by missionary standards. She also wrote several articles for missionary newsletters. In addition to her teaching, Talcott used her nursing skills to provide aid to wounded soldiers during the
First Sino-Japanese War, working in
Hiroshima. In 1895, she became the head of
Doshisha University's nursing school. Talcott died of pneumonia in Kobe in 1911. == References ==