Elijah S. Tilton

  General Notes:

WINFIELD S. TILTON, proprietor of the Wakeeney World, was born of poor but respectable parents in Effingham County, Ill., May 27, 1848. His father, Elijah Tilton, was a physician, born in Ohio in 1822; his mother was a school teacher, who was born in the State of New York. His parents moved to Fayette County, Ill., when he was two years of age. In 1860, his parents moved to Minnesota, where he farmed under his father's direction and went to school. In 1862 his parents moved to Central Iowa. In 1863 he enlisted in Company H, Ninth Iowa Cavalry, and served twenty-seven months, until the mustering out of the regiment. He returned to Des Moines, Iowa, where he attended school in 1866, then taught school awhile. He received a commission as Lieutenant of Company L., Nineteenth Kansas Cavalry, in the fall of 1868, and served with the regiment in the Indian Territory and Western Kansas until its muster out in the following spring. He was married the following December to Miss Annie M. Wilcox, of Miami County, Kan., who died in 1873. They have had two children. In 1871 he worked as a compositor on the La Cygne, Kan., Journal. He then went to Mound City, in the same county, and the same year, and for eighteen months worked as compositor, associate editor and editor on the Border Sentinel. In 1874 he was traveling agent, correspondent and city editor of the Leavenworth Daily Times. The same year he went to Sedalia, Mo.; worked as a compositor, and for a time conducted the Daily Republican. In 1875 he was one of two to start the Stone County Bowlder, at Galena, Mo.; then went to Carroll County, Ark., where he ran the Carroll County Bowlder, at Carrollton. In 1877 was married to Miss Jessie McClure, of Carroll County, Ark., by whom he has three children. In March, 1879, he started the Wakeeney Weekly World, which he has conducted ever since. In 1880 was appointed Paymaster-General of Kansas militia, with the rank of Colonel, by Gov. St. John.

Note all info from Family search, Root Web, and William G Cutler's history of the State of Kansas Trego Co Part - Part 3 Biographical Sketches.

Note Elijah Tilton was a Phsician in Kansas and his Mother was a School Teacher.

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Note for: Elijah S Tilton, 13 Jan 1822 - Index
Individual Note:
Email from Todd L. Tilton Todd.Tilton@ngc.com April 2011. Todd is Grandson of Windfield Scott Tilton 1848.

1900; Census Place: Rock Creek, Coffey, Kansas; Roll: T623_475; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 45.
Info from Tiltonbranches.com Carl Tilton. Dec 2010
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1850; Census Place: Placerville and Vicinity, El Dorado, California; Roll M432_34; Page: 269B; Image: 44
1870; Census Place: Wea, Miami, Kansas; Roll: M593_439; Page: 552B; Image: 345; Family History Library Film: 545938.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Residence: Fairfield Ohio.

Elijah married Rovilla Griffith #1, daughter of Daniel Griffith and Nancy Brown, in 1845 in Effingham Co Illinois. (Rovilla Griffith #1 was born in 1822 in New York and died after 1900 in Miami Kansas.)

Elijah next married Mary E. Taylor #2 on an unknown date. (Mary E. Taylor #2 was born on an unknown date and died on an unknown date.)