Jeremiah C. Tilton (1818-1872) was born in Franklin, New Hampshire, and died in Tilton, New Hampshire. He worked as an inventor and manufacturer and married Emily S. Morrill in Canterbury, New Hampshire, in 1843. Tilton enlisted as a captain during the Civil War in 1861 and served in the U.S. Volunteers Commissary Department for the Union. He was appointed postmaster of Tilton for the year of 1871. The town of Tilton, previously known as Sanbornton Bridge, is named after his great-grandfather, Nathaniel Tilton.

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