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send it to his home, and cheering his comrades with a few words,
expired. The G. A. R. Post at Thomaston, Me., is named in memory
of him.
509
ETHAN S. TILSON8 (Perez7, Perez6, John5, John4, Edmund3, Ephraim2,
Edmond1), son of Perez and Martha (Sawyer) Tilson; b.
Aug. 27, 1841; m. Nov. 3, 1877, Lizzie S. Abbott of Lewiston, Me.
CHILDREN:
515 Henry Elmore Tilson, b. April 18, 1879.
516 Ethan Perez Tilson, b. Jan. 10, 1885.
511
JOHN S. TILSON8 (Perez7, Perez6, John5, John4, Edmund3, Ephraim2,
Edmond1), son of Perez and Harriet (Collins) Tilson; b.
Dec. 27, 1850; m. Oct. 31, 1891, Hattie V. Ludwick of Liberty, Me.
CHILD:
517 Francis Ludwick Tilson, b. Jan. 27, 1896.
512
GEORGE W. TILSON8 (Perez7, Perez6, John5, John4, Edmund3,
Ephraim2, Edmond1), son of Perez and Harriet (Collins) Tilson;
b. Dec. 18, 1852; m. Oct. 5, 1887, Mary E. Abbott of Lancaster,
N. H.; b. June 18, 1855; d. July 28, 1910, in New York City.
CHILD:
518 Madaline Abbott Tilson, b. Sept. 20, 1888, in Omaha, Neb.
George William Tilson was born at Thomaston, Me., Dec. 18,
1852, of Puritan ancestry, heing a direct descendant of Edmond
Tilson of Plymouth, 1638. Mr. Tilson was fitted for college in the
pubile schools of Thomaston, and graduated from Bowdoin in 1877.
He taught school in Maine and Massachusetts for the first three
years after graduation. In Feb., 1880, he went to Memphis, Tenn.,
and had charge of certain portions of the Waring system of sewerage,
under Col. George E. Waring, Jr. In Aug., 1880, he went to
Kalamazoo, Mich., where he made plans for a system of sewerage
for that city, and superintended the construction of the same in
1881. In Oct. of 1881 he went to Omaha, Neb., and had charge of
the construction of the Waring system of sewerage that had then
been adopted for that place. For five years he superintended the
construction of sewers and pavements in Omaha, having charge of
the first asphalt pavement laid west of the Mississippi River. In
1887 he was appointed city engineer of Omaha, which position he
held until 1892. During his incumbency of this office a vast amount
of public work of all nature was constructed. From 1892 to 1895
he was engaged in private engineering and contracting work in
Nebraska, Colorado and Wyoming. In 1895 he was appointed assistant
engineer in the Department of City Works in Brooklyn, N.
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