Background
TIN LEY, Mathew A. was born on March 5, 1876 in Council Bluffs, Iowa, United States. Son of Mathew H. and Rose (Dolan) Tinley.
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Mathew A. TIN LEY
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Public and High Schools, Iowa. Nebraska University. Postgraduate in Chicago and The Lying-in, New York.
Career
Appointed, Second Lieutenant. 51 Iowa Yol. Infantry., 1898. Served with regt., Philippines, 1898-1899.
First Lieutenant, 1899. Promoted Captain, National. Guard, Iowa, 1900-1901.
Major, 1902; appointed District Surgeon, Union Pacific Railroad. 1903; Lieutenant Colonel, 3 Regiment, Iowa. National. Guard, 1904.
President, 0. B. Medical Society, 1906. Served as Lieutenant Colonel, Mexican Border, 1916. Served in World War, 1917.
Received Croix de Guerre, 1918. Colonel, 168 Infantry., 42 Division., 1918. Awarded Distinguished Service Medal., 1919, Legion of Honor 1920.
Appointed, Brigadier General, 67 Infantry. Brigadier Iowa. National. Guard; elected. Vice President, Iowa State Medical Society State Commander, Iowa.
Department American Legion, 1919-1921. Appointed Major General, 34 Division., composed of troops from Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota, since 1924.
Membership
Member: American Medical Association. Railroad Surgeons Medical Society. Elks; K of C.; American Legion.
Spanish War Yets.; Spanish War Order Carabao. Clubs: Country (Council Bluffs).
Connections
Spouse Lucy Shaw Williams, October 8, 1902, Council Bluffs, Iowa.
