Background
Tilden, Charles Joseph was born on October 3, 1873 in Brookline, Massachusetts, United States. Son of George Thomas and Alice Olmstead (Butler) Tilden.
Tilden, Charles Joseph was born on October 3, 1873 in Brookline, Massachusetts, United States. Son of George Thomas and Alice Olmstead (Butler) Tilden.
Harvard University, Bachelor of Science in Continuing Education, 1896. Yale (honorary), Master of Arts, 1919.
Assistant instructor engineering, Harvard University, from 1896 to 1897. Assistant engineer New York Rapid Transit Commission, 1897-1903. Instructor civil engineering, Cornell Univercity, 1903-1905.
Instructor, assistant professor and junior professor civil engineering, University of Michigan, 1905-1911, professor and head department of engineering mechanics, 1911-1913. Professor civil engineering, Johns Hopkins, 1913-1919. Strathcona professor engineering mechanics, Yale, 1919-1940, emeritus, since 1940, and fellow of Branford College, since 1933.
Member: (F.) American Association for the Advancement of Science. American Society of Civil Engineers. Society of American Military Engineers.
Society for Promotion of Engineering Education Clubs: New Haven Lawn, Graduates (New Haven), Cosmos (Washington, District of Columbia), Harvard (New York City).
Married Mabel Katherine Myers, October 14, 1902 (died March 8, 1940).; married second, Linda Palmer Littlejohn of Sydney, Australia, April. Children: Elinor (Mistress H. G. Hitchcock), Carol (Mistress D. L. Morris).