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Theodore was born on October 2, 1835 in New York City. He was the son of Silas and Eusebia (Tilton) Tilton. His father kept a store. Both his parents were strict Advent Baptists, and brought the boy up in a religious atmosphere.
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Theodore was born on October 2, 1835 in New York City. He was the son of Silas and Eusebia (Tilton) Tilton. His father kept a store. Both his parents were strict Advent Baptists, and brought the boy up in a religious atmosphere.
From the public schools he went to the Free Academy (later the College of the City of New York), where he was a student from 1850 to 1853.
He gained some newspaper experience reporting for the New York Tribune, and came under the notice and influence of Greeley himself.
Immediately after leaving school he declined a place on the New York Herald because it involved Sunday work, and joined the New York Observer, a Presbyterian weekly, instead. One of his regular assignments was to take down in shorthand the sermons of Henry Ward Beecher;
In the following year he quarreled with the Observer for its lukewarm attitude toward slavery, and owing in part to the good offices of the Rev. George B. Cheever, a leader of the religious antislavery party in New York, became managing editor of the Independent, the Congregationalist journal of Henry C. Bowen. In this post he at once made a notable reputation. It is little exaggeration to say that, taking more and more of the control from Bowen and his aide Joshua Leavitt, he temporarily "developed into one of the really great editors of the country". The Independent had been distinctly sectarian, its chief contributors clergymen; Tilton made it a journal of broad appeal, numbering Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Whittier, Lowell, Garrison, Seward, and Kossuth among its writers. Losses were converted into profits. He also arranged for the regular publication of Beecher's sermons, thus increasing the preacher's audience and income. The association between the two men became closer than ever. Tilton acted as superintendent of Plymouth Sunday School, and he, Bowen, and Beecher were called "the Trinity of Plymouth Church. "
When the Civil War fell with ruinous effect on Bowen's mercantile business, Beecher came to his aid late in 1861 by assuming the editorship of the Independent, while Tilton remained in his old place. The two used the journal aggressively in the fight for emancipation and a more vigorous prosecution of hostilities; but the arrangement lasted only a year, and when Beecher went to England to plead the Northern cause, Tilton succeeded him as editor-in-chief, holding the place until 1871.
He not only kept the Independent a successful family magazine but made it an organ of political power, taking a "radical" stand throughout the war and Reconstruction; its circulation increased so remarkably that in 1865 Bowen offered him a partnership. To his house in Livingston Street, Brooklyn, frequently came such famous figures as Greeley, Wendell Phillips, Sumner, Henry Wilson, and Gerrit Smith.
Immediately after the close of the war he became one of the most popular figures on the lyceum platform, while he also blossomed out as a writer of musical but unoriginal verse, The King's Ring and The Sexton's Tale, and Other Poems appearing in 1867. He attracted much attention when he went to Washington to labor for Johnson's impeachment, and when he threw himself into the woman's suffrage cause. His wife for a time edited Revolution, a suffragist journal, and both were prominent in the Equal Rights Association.
In 1870 he assumed an additional burden in the editorship of the Brooklyn Union, also owned by Bowen. He was a national figure. But this promising career was totally disrupted by the great Beecher scandal.
In the summer of 1870 Elizabeth Tilton confessed to her husband intimate relations with the pastor of Plymouth Church. The exact degree of intimacy was disputable, Tilton and his friends being convinced of adultery while Beecher first believed himself accused merely of "making improper solicitations". At first Tilton resolved to shield his wife and keep the matter secret; but unfortunately neither could forget. In a short time several members of the woman's rights group, including Victoria Woodhull, of whom Tilton had become a blind admirer, knew all about it; so did others in Plymouth Church who did everything in their power to keep the peace and suppress the scandal.
Henry Bowen in alarm decided to dismiss Tilton from the Independent and the Brooklyn Union; he had just described him in a signed article in the Independent as "bold, uncompromising, a master among men" (December 22, 1870), but now declared him guilty of moral lapses and unsafe in judgment.
Beecher acquiesced in this proceeding while asking through an intermediary for Tilton's forgiveness and writing: "I humble myself before him as I do before my God". Tilton's friend Frank Moulton came to the rescue by enabling him to start a new magazine, the Golden Age, but it proved weak.
In April 1872 he sued Bowen for breach of contract. Meanwhile, his charge against Beecher, though not openly pressed, was the subject of smouldering gossip. Full publicity was ultimately inevitable.
On November 2, 1872, Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly printed the charges in full. Beecher, unable longer to maintain a dignified silence and forced to try to clear his name, appointed a committee of members and stockholders of Plymouth Church to investigate. It completely exonerated him, as later did a group of Congregational ministers. Under Frank Moulton's restraining hand Tilton had played a long-suffering rôle, trying to shield Beecher while assailed by Beecher's friends; but now his patience was exhausted. On July 20, 1874, he appeared before Plymouth Church and formally lodged a charge of adultery against Beecher. In this crisis the distracted Elizabeth Tilton decided to leave her husband and children and stand by her pastor.
Tilton, deserted by his emotional wife, condemned by thousands of Beecher's admirers as a slanderer, charged by Beecher himself with blackmail, found his position desperate. The result was his suit against Beecher for criminal conversation, with damages of $100, 000 demanded. Hearings began January 11, 1875, in Brooklyn City Court, lasted 112 trial days, and resulted in a hung jury and a division of public opinion that still persists. The case left Tilton completely ruined in fortune and reputation. He had sold his share of the Golden Age in 1874, and lived by writing and lecturing.
In 1883 he left the country never to return, traveling in England and Germany and finally settling in Paris. Books and articles brought him small sums, and he long lived on a pittance on the 45le St. Louis, writing poetry and playing chess at the Café de la Regence.
Though four years after the trial his wife recanted and declared her husband's charges true, he was never reconciled with her. Among his later books were a wildly improbable romance, Tempest Tossed (1874); ballads called Swabian Stories (1882); Great Tom, or the Curfew Bell of Oxford (1885); Heart's Ease (1894); and Sonnets to the Memory of Frederick Douglass (1895). Tilton's death in Paris resulted from pneumonia.
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He was devoted to evangelical Christianity.
Ardent, impressionable, abolition, and fluent of speech and pen, he attracted attention both by his tall handsome figure and his impetuous energy.
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Theodore Tilton was “young, handsome, religious, intense, ” wrote historian William Harlan Hale.
On October 2, 1855, he married Elizabeth Richards, a Sunday school teacher of Plymouth Church in Brooklyn, Beecher performing the ceremony. In the summer of 1870 Elizabeth Tilton confessed to her husband intimate relations with the pastor of Plymouth Church. Elizabeth Tilton decided to leave her husband and children and stand by her pastor. Though four years after the trial his wife recanted and declared her husband's charges true, he was never reconciled with her.
His four children lived to maturity.