John Frelinghuysen Talmage
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John Frelinghuysen Talmage, A.M., M.D. (March 11, 1833 – ?]] was a pioneering New Jersey homeopath.
He was born near Somerville, New Jersey in 1833, and was named after his mother's brother-in-law, General John Frelinghuysen. His father was Thomas Talmage. His uncles included Samuel K. Talmage, President of Oglethorpe University. John F. Talmage was raised on his father's farm, and attended the Academy in the village, and completed under the personal tuition of his father's pastor and friend, the Reverend T. W. Chambers of New York, who lived in Somerville, New Jersey. He attended Rutgers College, New Brunswick, New Jersey, and took his place in the second term of the sophomore class and graduated in 1852. For six months Talmage pursued his medical studies in Huntsville, Alabama and then coming North, attended a course of lectures in the medical department of the City University of New York.
