political involvement aside from necessity, Talmage went on to serve on the Provo City Council as an alderman, and as a justice of the peace. Death Talmage died on 27 July 1933 in Salt Lake City at age 70. He was buried at Salt Lake City Cemetery. The vacancy in the Quorum of the Twelve created by his death was filled by Charles Albert Callis. Personal life In 1888, Talmage married Merry May Booth (1868–1944), on 14 June 1888. Booth was a native of Alpine, Utah, and the daughter of immigrants from Lancashire. She started studies at the normal school connected with BYA in 1885, when she was 16. It was there she met Talmage, who was one of her instructors. While at BYA, Booth was secretary of the Polysophical Society. After completing her course of normal study, May took a job as a teacher in Kaysville, Utah. A few months later, Talmage undertook a project to study the waters of the Great Salt Lake; Talmage's main reason for this journey, though, was to pursue a relationship with Booth, and five months later they were married in Manti, Utah. The Talmages had eight children. Among their children was John Talmage, who wrote a biography of his father. Another of their children, Sterling B. Talmage (1889–1956) became a geologist. Legacy The Mathematics and Computer Sciences Building at Brigham Young University is named after James Talmage. The University of Utah College of Science is housed in the James E. Talmage Building. Published works See also Mormonism and evolution References External links Archival collections James E. Talmage papers James Edward Talmage's diary James E. Talmage Journals Vols 1-5 Additional Talmage Journals Transcription of letters from James E. Talmage to May Booth Talmage Online works 1862 births 1933 deaths 20th-century Mormon missionaries American Latter Day Saints American geologists Apostles (LDS Church) Brigham Young Academy faculty Brigham Young University alumni British Latter Day Saints Burials at Salt Lake City Cemetery Converts to Mormonism English Latter Day Saint writers English emigrants to the United States English general authorities (LDS Church) Ensign College faculty Fellows of the Geological Society of America Fellows of the Royal Microscopical Society Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Illinois Wesleyan University alumni Johns Hopkins University alumni Lehigh University alumni Mission presidents (LDS Church) Mormon apologists Mormon missionaries in the United Kingdom Mormon theologians People from Hungerford Presidents of the University of