Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Tilden, L H 1841 - 
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Author: History of Grundy Co 1882

L. H. Tilden, farmer, P. O. Wauponsee, is a native of Stockholm, St. Lawrence 
Co., N. Y., born April 23, 1841, son of Isaac and Minerva Tilden, subject 
being the youngest of a family of eight children. He came to Illinois with his 
parents, and settled in Grundy County, where he has since lived, and where he 
was educated principally. He enlisted, September 6, 1862, in Company D, One 
Hundred and Twenty-seventh Illinois Volunteer Infantry, in which he served two 
years, afterward detailed to Battery A, First Illinois, and mustered out at 
Chattanooga, Tenn., June 19, 1865. He participated in the following 
engagements: Chickasaw Swamp, Arkansas Post, Black Bayou, Resaca, Dallas, 
Kenesaw Mountain, Chattahootchie River, Atlanta and Jonesboro. He married, 
April 10, 1866, Miss Lucy E. Willis, daughter of Ezra and Electa Willis. She 
was born in Leverett, Franklin Co., Mass., January 20,1842. They have a family 
of four children, all born in Grundy County, named as follows: Lillian E., 
born September 27, 1870; Guy W., born October 9, 1873; Mary E., born August 
14, 1877; and Roy E., born July 2, 1879. Mr. Tilden owns 120 acres of improved 
farm land in Section 3 of Vienna Township, Grundy County. His residence is one 
mile west from Hill's Park Station. Value of farm land, $50 per acre. In 
politics, he is a Republican.

Additional Comments:
Source: History of Grundy County, Illinois. (1882) Chicago: O.L. Baskin & Co. 
Historical Publishers.

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