The Tilson genealogy from Edmond Tilson at Plymouth, , 1638 to 1911; with brief sketches of the family in England back to 1066Also brief account of Waterman, Murdock, Bartlett [and other] families, allied with the parents of the author . moved to Hanover, Mass. He was employed in the Anchor Worksof George Curtis until the spring of 1845, when he moved to Pem-broke, near the place where he had learned his trade. He workedat blacksmithing until 1850, when he engaged in shoe making, andwith his children, made a prosperous occupation. In 1851 he builta house nearly one mile east of Bryantville
The Tilson genealogy from Edmond Tilson at Plymouth, , 1638 to 1911; with brief sketches of the family in England back to 1066Also brief account of Waterman, Murdock, Bartlett [and other] families, allied with the parents of the author . moved to Hanover, Mass. He was employed in the Anchor Worksof George Curtis until the spring of 1845, when he moved to Pem-broke, near the place where he had learned his trade. He workedat blacksmithing until 1850, when he engaged in shoe making, andwith his children, made a prosperous occupation. In 1851 he builta house nearly one mile east of Bryantville, next to the place wherehe lived in 1838. About 1860 he gave up shoe work and beganblacksmithing and making shoe tools. He was one of the first in-ventors of the edge plane in making shoes, and had a large sale anumber of years. He was a very ingenious person and skilled inthe art of tempering and working metals. In politics he was anold line Whig; afterwards became a Republican. He was a man ofphysical endurance, seldom sick; was kind to his family and workedhard to support it. Left without father or mother to guide, he hascone well his work in this life. He died at his home in Pembroke,June 11, 1888, respected by all who knew MRS. ALMTRA K. (TURNER) TILSON.
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