John Henry Tilden Scientist
John Henry Tilden (1851 – 1940) was a United States physician, son of Dr. Joseph G. Tilden. He was born in Van Burensburg, Illinois, on January 21, 1851. He first studied medicine under the supervision of his father, and by the age of seventeen, in September, 1868, he entered the office of Dr. J. Fellows, of Nokomis, Ill., and continued his studies for another two years. He graduated from the Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati on May 21, 1872 and began his own practice at Nokomis, for eight years. While there, in the spring of 1877, he took a post-graduate course at the American Medical College at St. Louis, Mo.In 1879, Dr. Tilden moved to St. Louis and was engaged for two years as lecturer in anatomy and physiology at a medical college there. In 1881 he moved to Litchfield, Ill. and Dr. Tilden continued practicing there for four years, "and established a fine reputation." In June, 1882, he was elected Adjunct Professor of Anatomy in the college in St. Louis. Dr. Tilden moved again in 1886 to Wichita, Kansas until 1890, when he moved to Denver, Colorado. While in Kansas, a local paper had this to say:His thorough knowledge of medicine, and skill in surgery, have won for him the confidence of the people to such an extent that, although comparatively a new-comer of this city, his success is already an assured fact.Dr. Tilden married in 1873, to Miss Rebecca Maddux, a native of Hillsboro, Ill., and daughter of Nathaniel Maddux. They had two children, a daughter, Edna, born in 1876; and Elsie, who was born in 1878 and died in 1884. Dr. Tilden was "a prominent member of the National Eclectic Medical Society, and also of the State Medical Society, of Illinois."He died in Denver, Colorado on September 1, 1940.