After high school, he worked in the Talbot Coal Company owned by his father and as a lumberman in North Carolina.

[2] He served as first sergeant in company G of the Pennsylvania Reserve Militia from 1918 to 1919 during World War I.

[3] Talbot was elected in the Borough of Norwood, Pennsylvania as registry assessor in 1917, to city council from 1918 to 1921 and as chief burgess from 1921 to 1925.

The ruling set a precedent and determined the state's constitutional right to appropriate funds for unemployment relief.

[1] Talbot died in an automobile accident in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania[9] and is interred at the Mt.