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Note for:   Benjamin Ratcliffe Tilton,   22 Aug 1831 - Jan 1892         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.
.Benjamin Radcliffe Tilton, second son of Benjamin and Lucinda (Newell) Tilton, was born in Boston, August 22, 1831. He received his school training in the public schools of Cambridge. He became a partner with his brother, Henry N. Tilton, in the dry goods firm of H. N. & B. R. Tilton, of Boston. He was a member of the city council of Cambridge, trustee and a member of the investment committee of the Cambridgeport Savings Bank, held membership in the Cambridge Club, and was an active member of the Prospect Street Church, and later of the First Church. He was a highly esteemed and beloved citizen of Cambridge, and when he died in January, 1892, the community lost a useful man and the church a helpful member. He was married June 18, 1862, to Mary Lov- ering, daughter of Harrison Prescott, of Lancaster. They had two children, Mabel Radcliffe, who married William Estes Hacker, of Tacoma, Washington, and Grace Prescott, who died when sixteen years of age. Mary (Prescott) Tilton, widow of Benjamin Radcliffe Tilton, died in Tacoma, November 21, 1906.
1880; Census Place: Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts; Roll: 543; Family History Film: 1254543; Page: 13A; Enumeration District: 434; Image: 0431

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Note for:   Frederick William Tilton,   14 May 1839 -          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.
Frederic William Tilton, third son of Benjamin and Lucinda (Newell) Tilton, was born in Cambridge, May 14, 1839. He was a pupil in the Cambridge grammar and high schools, and matriculated at Harvard College in 1858 with the class of 1862. He graduated A. B., 1862, and received the degree of A. M., 1865. He was one of the first eight elected to the Phi Beta Kappa from his class. He took a postgraduate course in the University of Gottingen, 1863-64. On returning to this country, he taught three years in the Highland Military Academy, Worcester, Massachusetts, and in 1867 was elected superintendent of the public schools of Newport, Rhode Island. He became principal of Phillips Academy, Andov- er, Massachusetts, in 1871, having been selected by the trustees of that noted secondary school as successor to the eminent educator. Dr. Samuel H. Taylor, who had been at the
head of the school from 1838 to the time of his death, January 29, 1871, and who was nominated among the great educators of the United States as a candidate for a place in the Hall of Fame for Great Americans. Mr. Tilton remained at the head of Phillips Academy, Andover, until, in 1873, ne was invited to return to Newport to organize and become head master of Rogers High School, endowed by William Sanford Rogers, of Boston. He continued at its head till 1890, when he retired from active educational work, and resided in Europe with his family till 1894. He served the citizens of Newport as a trustee and president of the Newport Hospital, and as a trustee of the Redwood Library. He was also a member of the first board of education organized in the state of Rhode Island. On his return from Europe in 1894 he took up his residence in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He became a director in the Harvard Trust Company, and a trustee and a member of the investment committee of the Cambridgeport Savings Bank, and has served as vice-president of the bank since 190x4.

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Note for:   Annie Mitilda Adams,   23 Aug 1835 - 11 Feb 1901         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.
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Note for:   Ralph Adams,   26 Mar 1795 - 25 Jun 1853         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.
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