John Van Nest Talmage
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John Van Nest Talmage (Chinese: 打馬字; born Somerville, New Jersey, 18 August 1819; died 19 August 1892), was a Protestant Christian missionary to Amoy, China. He was sent by the Reformed Church in America from 1847 to 1890.
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.
He wrote:
- Tn̂g-oē Hoan-jī Chho·-ha̍k (唐話番字初學, 1852): an early book on Pe̍h-oē-jī, the Latin orthography for the Chinese Minnan language.
- Chinese-English Dictionary (1885): dictionary of Amoy vernacular and English
He is memorialized in the classic work Forty Years in China, a biography.
He was also descended from the original settlers of South Hampton on his father's side, and were originally from England.
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