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Chicago. He was a commissioner of the South Park Board from 
1910 until the date of his death. 
In 1883 he first organized the firm of Epwarp Titpen & Co., 
as investment bankers, and from that time on was more or less 
interested in the banking business of Chicago and other cities. 
He was a large stockholder in the Fort Dearborn National Bank 
and the Drovers National Bank of Chicago, and was extensively 
interested in many other industries of that city. He was a 
director of the Chicago & Alton Railroad and of the Toledo, 
Peoria & Western. 
Mr. TILDEN exercised a very broad financial and political 
influence throughout the Central West, but his greatest achieve- 
ment was the upbuilding and development of the Lippy, McNEIL 
& Lippy plant. He was largely responsible for the variety of 
its products, and on several occasions saved the company from 
overthrow and disintegration by bits of bold business judgment 
and strong financiering. His death in 1915 was a great loss to 
the packing and business interests of Chicago. 
