“The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin”, published: Chicago:  
Western Historical Company.   1879.


F. O. TILTON,  furniture dealer and undertaker, Jefferson;  was born in 
Kenduskeag, Me., Dec. 22, 1856; was educated at the High School of his 
native place and at the Jefferson Liberal Institute.  He came to Jefferson 
in 1874, and was in the insurance business in partnership with J. W. 
Ostrand; about one year ago, he bought out his brother J. C., and still 
continues in the furniture business and makes a specialty of practical 
undertaking.  Mr. F. O. and his brother, J. C., are the only ones living of 
four children.  Their father, J. O. Tilton, died in the spring of 1865, and 
their mother, Ann F., died in January, 1873.


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