Bio: E. L. Tillinghast, M.D., Caddo Parish La
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville,  1890

Submitted by: Suzanne Shoemaker


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      E. L. TILLINGHAST, M. D., is a native of Beaufort District, S. C.,
where he was born August 3, 1839, his education being also received in his
native State, graduating from Columbia College.  Upon attaining manhood he
commenced the study of medicine, and in 1861 attended the medical
department of the Louisiana University, at New Orleans, graduating the same
year, having previously taken a course at Charleston, S. C., in 1858-59.
In the month of April, 1861, he joined the Second South Carolina Regiment
of Infantry, as assistant surgeon, a position he held until the close of
the war, and was on the battlefield of the first Manasses, the seven days'
fight around Richmond, Lewisburg, and Savage Station, where he received a
flesh wound, by a bursting shell.  For some time he was on detached service
in a hospital, and his war experience was of great service to him.  In 1866
he came to Mooringsport, and commenced the practice of his profession, and
two years later settled on his present well-improved farm.  He is
acknowledged by all to be an excellent physician and surgeon, and his
practice is large and lucrative.  He was married in 1867, to Miss Hattie
Lewis Fly, daughter of Benjamin Fly, of this parish, formerly of Tennessee,
and her birth occurred near Jackson, in the latter State.  Their union has
resulted in the birth of seven children:  Mary Curry (wife of Edward
Curry), Maude N., Arthur Y., Blanche E. and Roy.  Albert L. and Edwin L.
both died when young.  Dr. and Mrs. Tillinghast are members of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South, and he is a Mason, and in his political
views, a Democrat.  He is a son of Robert L. and Sophia E. (Wilson)
Tillinghast, the former of whom was born in Georgia, and was a successful
lawyer.  He died in 1858, at the age of forty years, after having served
both as a representative and senator in the General Assembly of his State,
being chosen to these positions by his Democratic friends.  His father,
Parvin Tillinghast, is supposed to have been a lawyer by profession, and
his life was spent in Georgia and South Carolina.  The first Tillinghast to
come to America bore the name of Parvin, who came with Roger Williams, the
Baptist.  He was the fifth elder of the State of Rhode Island, had been a
soldier under Cromwell, and came to America on account of his political
views, after the death of that great leader.  One of Parvin Tillinghast's
sons moved southward, the subject of this sketch being one of his
descendants.  There have been many distinguished men in the family, and
some became noted in the Revolutionary War, particularly Lieut. Thomas G.
Tillinghast, of the United States navy, and for gallant services was given
a sword by the State of South Carolina.  Another, Capt. Tillinghast was a
graduate of West Point Military Academy, and was at one time a United
States Senator from Rhode Island.  The subject of this sketch had two
brothers in the late war, Thomas S., aged fifteen, and Robert G., aged
seventeen, they being members of the Second South Carolina Cavalry, and
took part in all the battles of the Georgia campaign, under Gen. Hardee.
Some members of the family were also in the War of 1812.
     The Times, owned and edited by Charles Schaeffer and S. B. Johnson, two
enterprising gentlemen, is now thoroughly established, and its crisp and
trenchant editorials command an ever widening area of circulation, while
they carry with them that weight and authority which a clear, calm and
intelligent judgment must always secure.  It is both daily and weekly, and
receives all the Associated Press dispatches daily, it being the only paper
outside of New Orleans in the State, that gets the daily press reports.
Its circulation is very large, and its advantages for an advertising medium
are not excelled beyond New Orleans.  Mr. Schaeffer, the manager, is a
native of Shreveport, born in 1859, and he received good educational
facilities in that city.  Her served an apprenticeship in a printing
office, working nights, and afterward had charge of different papers in
Shreveport until 1887.  Then he and Mr. S. B. Johnson purchased the Times
and have continued its publication successfully since.  It would hardly do
justice to the paper should we fail to mention the name of Mrs. Julia Rule
(perhaps better known as "Pansy"), who has charge of the society and
fashion department.  This department is always full of choice literature,
and is read with avidity by the subscribers of the Times.  She is a
competent and reliable writer.