Winfield Scott 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 Missing One child of Winfield S Tilton and Jessie McClure

Info found 1880 Wakeeny Trego Kansas Census 1254398, T9-0398, Page 308-C.( Family Search)

Winfield S Tilton Is Buried Forest Lawn Memorial Park Glendale Los Angeles California # 9623716 Lot - 109 -B - Grave 6.

Winfield married Ann M Wilcox #1 on 26 Dec 1869 in Miami Co Kansas. (Ann M Wilcox #1 was born in 1852 in Miami Co Kansas and died in 1873 in Miami Co Kansas.)

Winfield next married Jessie A. McClure #2, daughter of Stephen McClure and Margaret McClure, on 11 Mar 1877 in Carroll Co Arkansas. (Jessie A. McClure #2 was born in 1859 in Carroll Co Arkansas and died in 1909 in Anadarko Oklahoma.)