John Van Nest Talmage (18 August 1819 – 19 August 1892), was a Protestant Christian missionary to Amoy, Fujian, China. He was sent by the Reformed Church in America from 1847 to 1890. Biography 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. His father's family had emigrated from England, and were the founders of the towns of South Hampton, and East Hampton in New York. Works He is memorialized in the classic work Forty Years in China, which was written by Rev. John Gerardus Fagg in 1894, a biography genre. References External links Talmage Biography (Pitcher, 1893) Talmage Biography-Forty Years in South China(Fagg, 1894) 1819 births 1892 deaths People from Bound Brook, New Jersey People from Somerville, New Jersey American people of Dutch descent Protestant missionaries in China Christian missionaries in Fujian American lexicographers Reformed Church in America members American Protestant missionaries American expatriates in China Missionary linguists 19th-century lexicographers