Hilton, Mrs. H. J.

HILTON

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 12/26/2008 at 16:15:54

Mrs. H. J. Hilton

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.29, Council Bluffs)
Mrs. H. J. Hilton, physician, Council Bluffs. Came to Council Bluffs in September, 1880. She was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and raised and educated there. She graduated at Ann Arbor, Mich., in 1872. Her mother lives in Chicago, Ill., at the advanced age of eighty years, but looks not over sixty years, and is very fine looking. Mrs. Hilton has graduated both in medicine and surgery; she has three children - E. Harold, who is a graduate of the literary department at Ann Arbor, Mich., and is now in Washington, D. C., in the signal service department; and two daughters, who reside here with her. Mrs. Hilton belongs to a very old Eastern family, being descended from the Childs of New York, on her mother's side, and from the Tifts of New York on her father's side. Her father, Hezekiah Tift, was one of the very first settlers of Cleveland, Ohio, there being only a log hotel at that place when he first settled there. Her mother, who is still living in Chicago, spends considerable of her time among her children. One of her daughters is Mrs. F. J. Osborne, wife of the well-known merchant of this city.