Talbot H. Wallis is the son of Talbot H. Green of Pennsylvania and Sarah Armstrong Montgomery of Ohio. Talbot Green came to California in 1841 with the Bartleson–Bidwell Party, led by John Bartleson and John Bidwell, the first to attempt a wagon crossing to California. Sarah Armstrong Montgomery came to California with the Stephens-Townsend-Murphy wagon train, which successfully crossed the Sierra Nevada Mountains in 1845.
After being left in San Francisco by her husband Allen Montgomery, Sarah married Talbot Green in El Pueblo de San José in October 1849. In 1851, before their son is born, Talbot Green, whose real name was Paul Geddes left Sarah to return to Pennsylvania to answer charges of embezzlement.
Talbot Green / Paul Geddes never returned and Sarah married Joseph Wallis in 1854, an attorney from Santa Clara County who later became a judge and state senator. They settled in Mayfield, California, present day Palo Alto. Joseph Wallis adopted Talbot Green as a Wallis and with Sarah, they raised five children, including their own children, Eva, Josephine, Joseph and William.
Talbot Wallis grew up in Mayfield and eventually graduated from San Jose Institute and Commercial College. He then went to Sacramento to study law while working for the California State Library and was admitted to the bar in 1879.
In March of 1882, a Sacramento newspaper reported that Talbot Wallis accompanied the remains of his brother, the late Joseph S. Wallis to Mayfield for his funeral and burial in Redwood City. Twenty-three-year-old Joseph was just beginning his career as an attorney in Sacramento when he died of typhoid fever.
Talbot Wallis’ twenty-year career with the State Library began as an assistant librarian from 1871 to 1880. He was promoted to deputy librarian in 1881, appointed director in 1882, and re-appointed four years later to another term. As director, Talbot increased the State Library’s collection from 51,000 to 73,000 volumes. He created a law library catalog in 1886, and completed the general book catalog in 1889. He was instrumental in calling for the first meeting of State Librarians, held during the American Library Association’s annual meeting in St. Louis, Missouri in 1889.
Talbot’s terms were marred by strife and political maneuvering within the State Library system and Wallis was not offered a third term as director by the Board of Trustees in 1890. Wallis left office to resume his law practice.
Talbot Wallis married Mrs. Nellie E. King in 1887, the mother of George Thomas King and Ethel Josephine King. The 1910 census shows Nellie and her 19-year-old daughter Ethel Josephine Wallis living on N Street and Talbot, married 23 years, is working as a civil engineer for the City of Sacramento.
Talbot was working for the Sacramento Department of Transportation at the time of his death from complications of nephritis (inflammation of the kidneys), July 3, 1914 at age 63. The funeral was at the Catholic Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament at 11th and K Streets in Sacramento, and Requiem Mass was said by Father O’Toole. Records at the Historic City Cemetery of Sacramento show that Talbot H. Wallis, Nellie E. Wallis and Ethel J. Wallis a.k.a. E.J. King are together in a private steel vault in Lot-584, but do not have memorial stones. Bio: Allen Rountree
After being left in San Francisco by her husband Allen Montgomery, Sarah married Talbot Green in El Pueblo de San José in October 1849. In 1851, before their son is born, Talbot Green, whose real name was Paul Geddes left Sarah to return to Pennsylvania to answer charges of embezzlement.
Talbot Green / Paul Geddes never returned and Sarah married Joseph Wallis in 1854, an attorney from Santa Clara County who later became a judge and state senator. They settled in Mayfield, California, present day Palo Alto. Joseph Wallis adopted Talbot Green as a Wallis and with Sarah, they raised five children, including their own children, Eva, Josephine, Joseph and William.
Talbot Wallis grew up in Mayfield and eventually graduated from San Jose Institute and Commercial College. He then went to Sacramento to study law while working for the California State Library and was admitted to the bar in 1879.
In March of 1882, a Sacramento newspaper reported that Talbot Wallis accompanied the remains of his brother, the late Joseph S. Wallis to Mayfield for his funeral and burial in Redwood City. Twenty-three-year-old Joseph was just beginning his career as an attorney in Sacramento when he died of typhoid fever.
Talbot Wallis’ twenty-year career with the State Library began as an assistant librarian from 1871 to 1880. He was promoted to deputy librarian in 1881, appointed director in 1882, and re-appointed four years later to another term. As director, Talbot increased the State Library’s collection from 51,000 to 73,000 volumes. He created a law library catalog in 1886, and completed the general book catalog in 1889. He was instrumental in calling for the first meeting of State Librarians, held during the American Library Association’s annual meeting in St. Louis, Missouri in 1889.
Talbot’s terms were marred by strife and political maneuvering within the State Library system and Wallis was not offered a third term as director by the Board of Trustees in 1890. Wallis left office to resume his law practice.
Talbot Wallis married Mrs. Nellie E. King in 1887, the mother of George Thomas King and Ethel Josephine King. The 1910 census shows Nellie and her 19-year-old daughter Ethel Josephine Wallis living on N Street and Talbot, married 23 years, is working as a civil engineer for the City of Sacramento.
Talbot was working for the Sacramento Department of Transportation at the time of his death from complications of nephritis (inflammation of the kidneys), July 3, 1914 at age 63. The funeral was at the Catholic Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament at 11th and K Streets in Sacramento, and Requiem Mass was said by Father O’Toole. Records at the Historic City Cemetery of Sacramento show that Talbot H. Wallis, Nellie E. Wallis and Ethel J. Wallis a.k.a. E.J. King are together in a private steel vault in Lot-584, but do not have memorial stones. Bio: Allen Rountree
Talbot H. Wallis is the son of Talbot H. Green of Pennsylvania and Sarah Armstrong Montgomery of Ohio. Talbot Green came to California in 1841 with the Bartleson–Bidwell Party, led by John Bartleson and John Bidwell, the first to attempt a wagon crossing to California. Sarah Armstrong Montgomery came to California with the Stephens-Townsend-Murphy wagon train, which successfully crossed the Sierra Nevada Mountains in 1845.
After being left in San Francisco by her husband Allen Montgomery, Sarah married Talbot Green in El Pueblo de San José in October 1849. In 1851, before their son is born, Talbot Green, whose real name was Paul Geddes left Sarah to return to Pennsylvania to answer charges of embezzlement.
Talbot Green / Paul Geddes never returned and Sarah married Joseph Wallis in 1854, an attorney from Santa Clara County who later became a judge and state senator. They settled in Mayfield, California, present day Palo Alto. Joseph Wallis adopted Talbot Green as a Wallis and with Sarah, they raised five children, including their own children, Eva, Josephine, Joseph and William.
Talbot Wallis grew up in Mayfield and eventually graduated from San Jose Institute and Commercial College. He then went to Sacramento to study law while working for the California State Library and was admitted to the bar in 1879.
In March of 1882, a Sacramento newspaper reported that Talbot Wallis accompanied the remains of his brother, the late Joseph S. Wallis to Mayfield for his funeral and burial in Redwood City. Twenty-three-year-old Joseph was just beginning his career as an attorney in Sacramento when he died of typhoid fever.
Talbot Wallis’ twenty-year career with the State Library began as an assistant librarian from 1871 to 1880. He was promoted to deputy librarian in 1881, appointed director in 1882, and re-appointed four years later to another term. As director, Talbot increased the State Library’s collection from 51,000 to 73,000 volumes. He created a law library catalog in 1886, and completed the general book catalog in 1889. He was instrumental in calling for the first meeting of State Librarians, held during the American Library Association’s annual meeting in St. Louis, Missouri in 1889.
Talbot’s terms were marred by strife and political maneuvering within the State Library system and Wallis was not offered a third term as director by the Board of Trustees in 1890. Wallis left office to resume his law practice.
Talbot Wallis married Mrs. Nellie E. King in 1887, the mother of George Thomas King and Ethel Josephine King. The 1910 census shows Nellie and her 19-year-old daughter Ethel Josephine Wallis living on N Street and Talbot, married 23 years, is working as a civil engineer for the City of Sacramento.
Talbot was working for the Sacramento Department of Transportation at the time of his death from complications of nephritis (inflammation of the kidneys), July 3, 1914 at age 63. The funeral was at the Catholic Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament at 11th and K Streets in Sacramento, and Requiem Mass was said by Father O’Toole. Records at the Historic City Cemetery of Sacramento show that Talbot H. Wallis, Nellie E. Wallis and Ethel J. Wallis a.k.a. E.J. King are together in a private steel vault in Lot-584, but do not have memorial stones. Bio: Allen Rountree
After being left in San Francisco by her husband Allen Montgomery, Sarah married Talbot Green in El Pueblo de San José in October 1849. In 1851, before their son is born, Talbot Green, whose real name was Paul Geddes left Sarah to return to Pennsylvania to answer charges of embezzlement.
Talbot Green / Paul Geddes never returned and Sarah married Joseph Wallis in 1854, an attorney from Santa Clara County who later became a judge and state senator. They settled in Mayfield, California, present day Palo Alto. Joseph Wallis adopted Talbot Green as a Wallis and with Sarah, they raised five children, including their own children, Eva, Josephine, Joseph and William.
Talbot Wallis grew up in Mayfield and eventually graduated from San Jose Institute and Commercial College. He then went to Sacramento to study law while working for the California State Library and was admitted to the bar in 1879.
In March of 1882, a Sacramento newspaper reported that Talbot Wallis accompanied the remains of his brother, the late Joseph S. Wallis to Mayfield for his funeral and burial in Redwood City. Twenty-three-year-old Joseph was just beginning his career as an attorney in Sacramento when he died of typhoid fever.
Talbot Wallis’ twenty-year career with the State Library began as an assistant librarian from 1871 to 1880. He was promoted to deputy librarian in 1881, appointed director in 1882, and re-appointed four years later to another term. As director, Talbot increased the State Library’s collection from 51,000 to 73,000 volumes. He created a law library catalog in 1886, and completed the general book catalog in 1889. He was instrumental in calling for the first meeting of State Librarians, held during the American Library Association’s annual meeting in St. Louis, Missouri in 1889.
Talbot’s terms were marred by strife and political maneuvering within the State Library system and Wallis was not offered a third term as director by the Board of Trustees in 1890. Wallis left office to resume his law practice.
Talbot Wallis married Mrs. Nellie E. King in 1887, the mother of George Thomas King and Ethel Josephine King. The 1910 census shows Nellie and her 19-year-old daughter Ethel Josephine Wallis living on N Street and Talbot, married 23 years, is working as a civil engineer for the City of Sacramento.
Talbot was working for the Sacramento Department of Transportation at the time of his death from complications of nephritis (inflammation of the kidneys), July 3, 1914 at age 63. The funeral was at the Catholic Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament at 11th and K Streets in Sacramento, and Requiem Mass was said by Father O’Toole. Records at the Historic City Cemetery of Sacramento show that Talbot H. Wallis, Nellie E. Wallis and Ethel J. Wallis a.k.a. E.J. King are together in a private steel vault in Lot-584, but do not have memorial stones. Bio: Allen Rountree
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