Draft:Myron H. Tilden

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{{Infobox officeholder

| honorific_prefix =The Honorable

| name = Myron Holmes Tilden

|image= File:MyronHTilden1883.png

| office = Judge of the
Superior Court
of Hamilton County

| party = Whig
Republican

| office2 = 3rd Mayor of Toledo

| term_end = 1878

| term_start = 1872

| termstart2 = 1840

| termend2 = 1843

| module=

{{infobox person | embed=yes

| name= Myron H. Tilden

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1812|08|25}}

|death_date = {{Death date and age|1888|02|23|1812|08|18}}

}}

Myron Holmes Tilden born in New York, either August 18th{{Harv|Phelps|1959}} or August 25, 1812.{{Harv|Western Biographical Publishing Company|1883|p=302}} His father was Dr. Myron W. Holmes, who died before his birth. His mother remarried Dr. Daniel Tilden, a physician in Norwalk, Ohio, who further adopted Myron as his son. He attended Norwalk Seminary, practicing Law in Norwalk, before being admitted to the bar.{{Harv|Phelps|1959}} In 1833, while still in Norwalk, Tilden practiced law, working for the Law office of Thaddeus B. Sturges, and later that year, for Ebenezer Lane. He worked with Lane until his admission to the bar in 1835{{Harv|Otis|1836|p=3}}{{Harv|Western Biographical Publishing Company|1883|p=302}}

He moved to Milan, Ohio, where he published a the Milan Times. He moved to Toledo in 1836. He was elected to the Toledo City Council in 1839, and Mayor in 1840, winning the latter by four votes. He served from 1840-1843, winning election each year. {{Harv|Harvey|1987|p=9}} He resigned prior to finishing his fourth term in order to serve as judge for the Lucas County Court of Common Pleas.{{Harv|Phelps|1959}}

After serving leaving office in 1843, Tilden ran unsuccessfully for Ohio's 5th Congressional District in the House of Representitives, losing to 7th Mayor of Toledo, Emery D. Potter, member of the Foco Loco faction of the Democratic Party.{{Harv|New-York daily tribune|1843|p=2}} He then spend the next four years serving as the Judge for the Lucas County Court of Common Pleas, serving until 1847.{{Harv|Harvey|1987|p=9}}

Following his time as mayor, he served on the board of directors for the Erie and Kalamazoo Railroad Company.{{Harv|Wales|1848|p=3}} In 1847, he resigned his judgeship, in order to captain the steamboat, Indiana, which he had partly invested in, with this venture failing. He found that he didn't enjoy living in the more swampy environment of Toledo, and, for his health, he moved to Cincinnati between 1850 and 1851.{{Harv|Harvey|1987|p=9}}{{Harv|Phelps|1959}}{{Harv|Law School fo the Cincinnati College|1858|p=2}}

For the academic year 1858-1859, Tilden was listed as the Professor of Equity Jurisprudence, Pleading, and Practice, a position he held since 1850.{{Harv|Law School fo the Cincinnati College|1858|p=2}}{{Harv|Law School fo the Cincinnati College|1852|p=2}}{{Harv|Law School of the Cincinnati College|1859|p=2}} During the 1860s, Tilden, and his son, Myron, Jr., worked as Attorneys in Cincinnati{{Harv|Williams and Company|1964| p=356}}. in 1861, he was listed as the plaintiff in a lawsuit against Charles A. Rowsey, et al., and as a result of the case, A sheriff's sale was ordered to take place.{{Harv|Kingsbury|1862|p=4}}

He served as a judge for the Superior Court of Hamilton County, having been appointed, December 28, 1872.{{Harv|Westliche blätter|1872|p=5}}{{Harv|American Israelite|1888|p=6}} He retired from the position in 1878, as a result of poor health.{{Harv|Goss|1912|p=159}}

Tilden was listed as one of the primary incorporators for a national bank, located in cincinnati.{{Harv|Worthington advance|1881|p=1}} Either he, or his son was listed as the defense in two court cases brought against him from his partners at the Cincinnati National Bank. If the suit was brought against him, it would have been post-mortum.{{Harv|New-York tribune|1893|p=4}}

He was further involved in several political scandals, with himself involving himself in a scheme to defraud $1,000,000 from a family in Toledo, possibly in relation to his connection via Samuel J. Tilden.{{Harv|The Sun|1880|p=1}}{{efn|this may be a sensational article intended to defame Tilden as a result of his relationship to Samuel J. Tilden in the fallout of the Compromise of 1877.}}

Tilden's wife, Louisa and son Harvey, both died of Bright's disease in 1880 and 1887, respectively.{{Harv|Tilden, Louisa|1880}}{{Harv|Tilden, Harvey|1887}}

Tilden died of natural causes, at the age of 75, February 23, 1888.{{Harv|Tilden, M. H.|1888}} His given cause of death was old age. An obituary claimed that he was "a friend of the Israelites." and that, without the assistance of a man named Henry Mack, he would have died in abject poverty.{{Harv|American Israelite|1888|p=6}}{{efn|Age given as 76}}

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