“I have thanked God every waking hour since the Eighth of November. That day was the greatest in the history of the present generation.”
About Theodore Tilton
2 October 1835–29 May 1907
Theodore Tilton stands as one of America's most complex literary figures of the nineteenth century—a man whose poetry spoke to universal truths about the human condition while his personal life became entangled in one of the most scandalous trials of the Victorian era. Born on October 2, 1835, in New York City, and…