Tilden Township, Cherokee County, Iowa

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History

Tilden Township was named after Joseph White Tilden (1819–1903) a pioneer who emigrated first from Lebanon, Connecticut, to Forest Lake, Pennsylvania, to Springfield, Illinois, and then to Winneshiek County, Iowa. In 1866, he claimed as a homestead Script error: No such module "convert". of section 26, residing there with his wife, Irene Elizabeth West, and five children. They moved to the Washington Territory in 1885.[1]

Geography

Tilden Township covers an area of Script error: No such module "convert". and contains no incorporated settlements. According to the USGS, it contains two cemeteries: Mount Pleasant and Trinity.

References

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  1. History of Cherokee County,Thomas McCulla, Chicago, the S.J.Clark Publishing Company 1914, pg.536

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