Henry Newell Tilton

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Note for: Henry Newell Tilton, 18 May 1829 - 11 Feb 1904 Index
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William Richard Cutter, HISTORICAL HOMES AND PLACES AND GENEALOGICAL AND PERSONAL MEMORS RELATING TO THE FAMILIES OF MIDDLESEX COUNTY MASSACHUSETTS. Volume II Lewis Historical Publisahing Co, NY 1908. page 719- 721.
.Henry Newell Tilton, eldest son of Benjamin and Luoinda (Newell) Tilton, was born in Boston, May 18, 1829. He was reared in Cambridge, where he attended the public schools, and became a member of the dry goods firm of H. N. & B. R. Tilton, of Boston, his younger brother being junior partner. Later he went into the lumber business in Boston with his brother, Benjamin R. General Robert Cowdin, who distinguished himself in the Civil war, an experienced lumber merchant, was admitted to the firm at the close of the war, and the firm name became H. N. and B. R. Tilton & Cowdin. Mr. Til- ton retired from business in 1875. He was a director of the First National Bank of Cambridge, trustee of the Cambridgeport Savings Bank, member of the Cambridge Club and of the Colonial and Union clubs of Cambridge. He was a member of the Cambridge school board for many years, and a member of the Prospect Street Congregational Church, Cambridge, in which church organization he held the office of deacon. Later he attended the First Church, of which Dr. Alexander McKenzie is pastor. He was married October 5, 1854, to Annie Matilda Adams, daughter of Ralph and Anna (Adams) Smith, a lineal descendant, on her mother's side, from Governors Dudley and Winthrop. They lived in Boston and later removed to Cambridge, which became their permanent home. Their children were: Annie Eugenia, who graduated at Smith College -in 1883, and Florence Newell, who married Frank Perley Prichard, a lawyer of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and has two daughters, Margaret and Elizabeth Prichard. Henry Newell Tilton died at Cambridge, February n, 1904.

Henry married Anna Matilda Adams, daughter of Ralph Adams and Anna Matilda Hopkins, in 1854 in Cambridge Mass. (Anna Matilda Adams was born on 23 Aug 1835 in Cambridge Mass and died on 11 Feb 1901 in Cambridge Mass.)