Y., and given especial charge of pavement construction. He held this position until 1902, when he was appointed chief engineer of the Bureau of Highways for the Borough of Brooklyn, under the new Greater New York charter. This position he held until June, 1907, when he was transferred to a similar position in the Borough of Manhattan. He continued in this office until May 1st, 1911, when he was made consulting engineer of the Borough of Brooklyn, New York City. Mr. Tilson has been prominent in engineering societies, having been president and secretary of the Nebraska Association of Engineers and Surveyors, president of Brooklyn Engineers' Club, secretary and president of the American Society of Municipal Improvements, president of the Municipal Engineers of the City of New York, a director of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and is at present president of the Association for Standardizing Paving Specifications, an organization made up of city officials of the principals cities of this country. He has also written many articles on paving subjects for the above societies, as well as engineering journals, and is the author of "Street Pavements and Paving Material," a work on the construction of pavements, published by John Wiley & Sons in 1900. Mr. Tilson is also a member of the Midwood Club of Flatbush, of which he has twice been president; a member of the Zeta Psi Fraternity and a member of the Phi Beta Kapa Alumni Association of the City of New York.

EDWARD C. TILSON7 (Perez6, John5, John4, Edmund3, Ephraim2, Edmond1), son of Perez and Melinda (Fales) Tilson; b. March 15, 1807; m. Jan. 21, 1833, Mary P. Sawyer. She was born in Portland, Me., April 13, 1813; d. at Deer Park, Md., Nov. 15, 1882. She was highly esteemed for the many kind deeds of charity. Col. Tilson d. Feb. 27, 1892, at his home in Deer Park.

             THEIR CHILDREN WERE: 
519  Mary M. Tilson, b. Oct. 29, 1833, in Thomaston, Me.; d. Oct. 
        9, 1834. 
520  Elizabeth M. Tilson, b. June 14, 1835, in Thomaston, Me. 
521  Mary Anna Tilson, b. July 15, 1837, in Thomaston, Me. 
522  Edward F. Tilson, b. Sept. 17, 1839, in Thomaston, Me. 
523  Emerline M. Tilson, b. May 3, 1842, in Thomaston, Me.; d. 
        Jan. 8, 1848. 
524  Helen D. Tilson, b. May 22, 1844, in Thomaston, Me.; d. Feb. 
        1, 1846. 
525  Martha S. Tilson, b. March 12, 1847, in Charlestown, Mass. 
526  Clarance H. Tilson, b. Sept. 26, 1856, in Deer Park, Md. 
Adopted dau., Mona (Grimm) Tilson; b. about 1865; m. Dec. 1, 1891, at Oakland, Md., E. M. Spedden.

Col. Tilson was educated at the public schools in Thomaston, Me., where he acquired the common branches of an English education