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Elgin County

The Life of Colonel, The Late Honorable Thomas Talbot

1857
L.C. Kearney

Full title of this book is "The Life of Colonel, The Late Honorable Thomas Talbot, Embracing the Rise and Progress of the Counties of Norfolk, Elgin, Middlesex, Kent and Essex." The earliest biography of Colonel Thomas Talbot published four years after his passing. The second half of the book contains  descriptions of the various towns and villages in the Talbot Settlement.

Life of Colonel Talbot

1859
Edward Ermatinger

The full title of this book is "Life of Colonel Talbot and the Talbot Settlement, its rise and progress , with sketches of the public characters, and career of some of the most conspicuous men in Upper Canada, who were either friends or acquaintances of the subject of these memoirs." A favourable biography of Thomas Talbot written by Talbot's longtime friend Edward Ermatinger.