Norbert Good Talbott
DePauw University Class of 1921
DC 1838, DC 1839, flat box 1753

Norbert Good Talbott Collection

Class of 1921

Size: 2 document cases and one flat box, 1.8 linear feet

Restrictions: none

Accession #: UM 88-51

Provenance: donor

Processed: August 1990

Norbert Good Talbott was born in Evansville, Indiana on April 16, 1897. He graduated from DePauw University in 1921, was granted his master's degree in History and Political Science from Columbia University in 1924, his bachelor of divinity degree from Drew Theological Seminary in 1924 and his doctor of theology degree from Drew in 1927. DePauw awarded him the doctor of divinity degree in 1951.

Dr. Talbott spent most of his ministry in the South Indiana Conference serving the United Methodist churches in Spencer; Broad Ripple; Indianapolis; Wall Street, Jeffersonville; Central, Evansville; Main Street, Huntingburg; and St. Paul in Rushville. He was the District Superintendent of the The Columbus District from 1946-1953. The last six years of his active ministry was as pastor of Trinity UMC in Huntington, Indiana located in the NIC.

Norbert Good Talbott married his college sweetheart, Florence Jane McCloud, also a 1921 graduate of DePauw. They had one son, Norbert Lee (Bert), another DePauw graduate.

This collection consists of articles and sermons written by Norbert Good Talbott, journals from several trips taken by the family, scrapbooks, and correspondence relating to a controversy that Talbott had as a chaplain in the U. S. Navy. It also includes some writings by Florence and Bert.

DC 1838

folder 1: Articles by Norbert Good Talbott: typescripts, 1945-1961

2: "Bert": compositions written by Bert in gradeschool

3: Certificates, Parchments: teacher's license from the state of Indiana, Methodist parchments

4: Correspondence: 1926-1927, Walter Bundy

5: Correspondence: 1943-1946

6: Correspondence: 1943-1945, related to resignation as navy chaplain

7: Correspondence: 1943-1946, related to resignation as navy chaplain

8: Correspondence: 1963-1964, Drew University

9: The Facts in the Talbott Case: article by Jacob Simpson Payton, printed in the November 1944 issue of The Chaplain

10: Florence M. Talbott: two articles by Florence

11: God's Partner: typescript of article by Norbert Good Talbott

12: Honorary Degree, DePauw: correspondence and clippings

13: Lenten Mid-Week Services: sermons used February-April, 1947

14: Papers from the Navy: correspondence and papers relating to release from duty

DC 1839

folder 1: Photographs

2: Pop's Scrapbook: drawings

3: Scrapbook: clippings, 1927-1934

4: Sermons: 1949, 1964

5: Trip to Kansas: scrapbook of photos, summer 1947

6: Trip to Washington, D.C.: correspondence to Florence from Norbert, April 1950

DC 1753, flat box

Scrapbook that was given to Talbott as a remembrance from churches that he worked in.