John Lyon Tilton

  General Notes:

Info found Family Search 1880 Census Smith Worth Missouri 1254741, T9-0741, Page 385-A.
Note for: John Lyon Tilton, 5 Nov 1861 - 29 Dec 1939 Index
Burial:
Place: Allendale Cem, Smith, Worth, Missouri

Individual Note:
1920; Census Place: Fletchall, Worth, Missouri; Roll: T625_965; Page: 5A; Enumeration District: 154; Image: 503.
1880; Census Place: Smith, Worth, Missouri; Roll T9_741; Family History Film: 1254741; Page: 385.1000; Enumeration District: 282; Image: 0086.

.Calvin Tiltou was born at Allendale, Missouri, December 15, 1893. His father is John Lyon Tiltou, prominent at Grant City as director and stockholder in the First National Bank, and extensively interested in real estate, farming and loans. lie was born November 5, 1861, at Eagleville, Missouri, was educated in the public schools and the Grand River College at Edinburg, and for a number of years has been well known in political circles in Northwest Missouri. As a republican he held the office of county collector in Worth County one term, in 1912 was a delegate to the national convention in Chicago, and has been chairman of the County Central Committee and a member of the State Committee. His wife, Margaret A. McElvain, was born in Alleudale, Missouri, April 3, 1863.]

John Lyon Tilton. Among the men of Northwest Missouri who during long and active careers have contributed materially to the commercial, financial and civic development of its thriving centers of business activity, John Lyon Tilton, of Grant City, holds a conspicuous place. Mr. Tilton represents a family which has been identified with Missouri's history since 1860, and was born at Eagleville, this state, November 5, 1861, a son of Calvin and Martha W. (Heald) Tilton.

WALTER WILLIAMS, A history of northwest Missouri, Volume 2, THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY , CHICAGO NEW YORK pg 1143-44.\\ google book


Family Note: 1900; Census Place: Smith, Worth, Missouri; Roll T623_908; Page: 13B; Enumeration District: 147.
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John married Margaret A. McElvain, daughter of Andrew J McElvain and Deborah Combs, in 1883 in Worth Missouri. (Margaret A. McElvain was born on 3 Apr 1863 in Allendale Missouri, died on 3 Jan 1947 in Worth Co Missouri and was buried Allendale Cemetery in Worth Co Missouri.)