Artist: Robert Wadsworth Grafton (1876–1936)
Edward Milton Tilden
TILDEN, EDWARD MILTON (1855–1915), inducted 1915
Born in Utica, New York, Edward Tilden moved to Chicago as a young man, and in 1883, became a general bookkeeper at Drovers National Bank, Union Stock Yards. The same year, he formed the investment banking firm of Edward Tilden and Company, and the firm became involved in many stockyard businesses. In 1897, Tilden became treasurer, and later president, of the packing company Libby, McNeil & Libby. Tilden also served as president of both National Packing Company and the Chicago Board of Education. A close associate of Gustavus Swift Sr., he was executor of Swift’s estate when the packing giant died in 1903.
Source: Saddle & Sirloin Guidebook 2026, p. 188