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SHELDON TILT
Originally published in 1900 |
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SHELDON TILT, of Demarest, is of English descent. Thomas Tilt, a
leather manufacturer from Birmingham, England, settled at West Point
on the Hudson about 1750. He purchased property of Benjamin Allison,
of Haverstraw, N.Y., August 22, 1777. He signed the Association Articles
for Liberty in the Yoost Mabie House (now Andre's Prison), Tappan, N. Y.,
July 11, 1775, and was Corporal under Colonel Ann Hawkes Hay, his commission
being granted February 16, 1776. His children were Daniel,
Thomas, Rebecca, and Polly. Thomas (2) married Ann M. Bell, October 15,
1795. He has issue, baptized at Tappan, Catharine, Anna, Thomas, William,
Mary, Elizabeth, and Rachel. William Tilt married Margaret Bogert and had a son, Jefferson Tilt, who married Maria J. Demarest, daughter of the late Ralph S. Demarest and Jane Haring, a granddaughter of Samuel R. and Elizabeth (Zabriskie) Demarest, and a great-granddaughter of Ralph S. and Maria D. Demarest. He had four children, one of whom is Sheldon Tilt, the subject of this sketch. The latter's grandfather, Ralph S. Demarest, was prominent in political matters and represented his district in both houses of the New Jersey Legislature. His great-great-grandfather, Ralph S. Demarest, served in the Revolutionary War in Captain Christie's company from Bergen County, while his great-grandfather, Samuel Demarest, who was also a soldier in the Revolution, was captured by the English, and confined in the historic sugar house in New York City. Sheldon Tilt was born in Sparkill, N. Y., March 7, 1868, and received his education in the schools of Bergen County. At the age of seventeen he entered the employ of the Erie Railroad, with which he has since continued, discharging his duties with acknowledged ability and satisfaction. He is a member of the Reformed Church, a public spirited citizen, and respected by all who know him. Being greatly interested in real estate affairs, he was appointed in 1893, by Governor Werts, of New Jersey, as a representative from Bergen County to the World's Fair Real Estate Commission.
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