Eleanor McCutcheon Collier Talmage

Born in 1857 or 1858 and dying in 1902, she is identified in library and archival records as Eleanor McCutcheon Collier Talmage. Her name is now most closely linked with T. De Witt Talmage as I Knew Him, a memorial-style work associated with her husband, the prominent minister Thomas De Witt Talmage.

Book and catalog records credit her as a coauthor of that volume, and public-domain editions note that she wrote the closing portion after his death. That gives her a distinctive place in religious and biographical writing: not as a prolific standalone author, but as someone whose contribution helped shape an intimate portrait of a major American preacher.

A clear individual portrait survives on Wikimedia Commons, where she appears under the name Mrs. T. De Witt Talmage. Because the surviving record is limited, many personal details about her life are less widely documented than the book she helped bring into print.