Theodore Tilton

Theodore Tilton

Theodore Tilton (2 October, 1835 – 29 May, 1907) was a American newspaper editor, Poet and Abolitionist. He was born in New York City to Silas Tilton and Eusebia Tilton (same surname). On his twentieth birthday 2 October, 1855 he married Elizabeth Richards.

From 1860 to 1871, he was the assistant of Henry Ward Beecher; however, in 1874, he filed criminal charges against Beecher for "criminal intimacy" with his (Tilton's) wife.

Principal works

* "Victoria C. Woodhull. A Biographical Sketch." 1871.
* "Tempest-Tossed A Romance." 1874.
* "The Complete Poetical Works of Theodore Tilton in One Volume With a Preface on Ballad-Making and an Appendix on Old Norse Myths & Fables." 1897.

References

* Fox, Richard Wightman. "Trials of Intimacy Love and Loss in the Beecher-Tilton Scandal." Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1999.
* [http://www.familysearch.org familysearch.org] Accessed September 16, 2007
* Applegate, Debby. "The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher." New York: Doubleday, 2006.
* [http://worldcat.org/search?q=au%3ATheodore+Tilton&fq=ap%3ATheodore+Tilton&qt=facet_ap%3A Tilton's literary work] Accessed January 25, 2008

External links

* [http://www.mrlincolnandnewyork.org/inside.asp?ID=39&subjectID=3 Mr. Lincoln and New York: Theodore Tilton]
* [http://www.gerrymack.com/chap1a/chap1a.html Even This Shall Pass Away] – poem (last accessed 2006-08-12)


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