Lydia H. Tilton Explained

Lydia H. Tilton
Birth Name:Lydia Priscilla Heath
Birth Date:July 10, 1839
Birth Place:Tuftonboro, New Hampshire, U.S.
Death Date:July 26, 1915
Death Place:Washington, D.C.
Resting Place:Arlington National Cemetery
Alma Mater:New Hampshire Conference Seminary
Children:2

Lydia H. Tilton (Heath; July 10, 1839 – July 26, 1915) was an American journalist and temperance worker.[1] [2] Also a poet, she was well known in literary circles.[3] "Old Glory", lyrics by Tilton, set to the tune of "Dixie", was the national song of the Daughters of the American Revolution (D.A.R.).[4] [5]

Early life and education

Lydia Priscilla Heath[6] was born in Tuftonboro, New Hampshire, July 10, 1839. Her mother was Chloe (Blake) Heath (1800–1877). Her father was Abel Heath (1797–1852), a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, who was known to the Methodists throughout New England. He died during a Session of Conference in Nashua, New Hampshire, in 1852, leaving a widow and eight children. From this time, Lydia resided in Manchester, New Hampshire.

She was educated in the public schools of Manchester, and in the New Hampshire Conference Seminary.

Career

Tilton taught in the latter school, and in Henniker Academy.

In Manchester, on December 6, 1866, she married Rufus Newell Tilton (1840–1901),[7] and thereafter resided in Washington, D.C., as Mr. Tilton worked for the U.S. Treasury Department.[8] They had two daughters, Emma (b. 1872) and Anna (b. 1874).

As a newspaper correspondent and as a writer of occasional poems, Tilton developed a large circle of literary friends.

Tilton served as the Corresponding Secretary[9] and the Superintendent of Temperance Instruction of the Non-Partisan National Woman's Christian Temperance Union in Washington, D.C.[10] Subsequently, she served as the national legislative secretary of the Non-Partisan National Woman's Christian Temperance Union, being active in its work.

Death

Lydia H. Tilton died in Washington, D.C., July 26, 1915.[11] Burial was at Arlington National Cemetery.

Selected works

Poems

Songs

Notes and References

  1. Book: Willard . Frances Elizabeth . Frances Willard . Livermore . Mary Ashton Rice . Mary Livermore . A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life . 1893 . 716–17 . . TILTON, Mrs. Lydia H..
  2. Book: Moulton . Charles Wells . The Magazine of Poetry and Literary Review . 1895 . Buffalo, New York . 98 . 7 . https://books.google.com/books?id=BDk5AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA98 . 12 August 2022 . en . LYDIA H. TILTON, by I. S. J..
  3. Book: Chapin (compiler) . Bela . The Poets of New Hampshire . 1883 . C. H. Adams . Claremont, New Hampshire . 12 August 2022 . en.
  4. News: POLITICS IN THE AIR; "DAUGHTERS" ALERT . 12 August 2022 . . Newspapers.com . 18 April 1909 . 5 . en.
  5. Proceedings of the Eighteenth Continental Congress of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Washington, D. C., April 19th to 24th, 1909, Continental Memorial Hall. The American Monthly Magazine . 1909 . 35 . 102 . 12 August 2022 . National Society . en.
  6. Book: Blake . Carlton E. . Descendants of Jasper Blake, Emigrant from England to Hampton, N.H., Ca. 1643, 1649–1979 . 1980 . Gateway Press . 68 . 12 August 2022 . en . "Lydia Priscilla Heath b. July 10, 1838 Tuftonboro; m. Rufus Tilton".
  7. Web site: Lydia Priscilla Heath 10 July 1838 – 26 July 1915 • LV1P-KP4 . ident.familysearch.org . 12 August 2022.
  8. Book: Washington Academy of Sciences (Washington D.C.) . Directory of the Washington Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Societies: Comprising the Anthropological, Biological, Chemical, Entomological, Geographic, Geological, Historical, Medical, and Philosophical Societies . 1899 . Joint Commission. . 56 . 12 August 2022 . en.
  9. Book: Foster . Judith Ellen . The Truth in the Case: A Concerning Partisanship and Non-partisanship in the W.C.T.U. . 1889 . J.E. Foster . 127 . 12 August 2022 . en.
  10. Book: Woman's Christian Temperance Union . Minutes of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union at The... Annual Meeting in ... with Addresses, Reports, and Constitutions . 1888 . Chicago . 12 August 2022 . en.
  11. News: Mrs. Lydia H. Tilton . 12 August 2022 . . . 27 July 1915 . 11 . en.

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