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OCCU Merchant of Holland
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OCCU News Paper Editor, School Teacher, an School Supintendent
Mr. Tipton was highly respected for his upright life, and admired for his literary tastes and scholarly attainments; active in body and mind until the last.
He came to Canada in the year 1849. He taught school in Selkirk, for a short time. In 1850 he moved to Dunnville, Ontario where he became a newpaper editor where he did his work so well that the Toronto Globe spoke in the highest terms of his efficiency.
In 1863, he was appointed to the position of Collector of Tolls at Danville holding this unil he was Super annuated. In 1860 he married Miss Helen Campbell. Mr. Tipton was indeed a very public spirited citizen. Among his any activities was his work on the High School Board and Public Library Board of Dunnville. He was one of the first school trutees and was Superintendent of the Dunnville schools in 1874 and 1875.
For twenty years he was president of the Public Library Board which he did so much to organize thirty years previous.
In his earlier years he was also connected with the Mechanic's Institute of Dannville.
He contributed to the press of both Canada and the United States. He wrote a vigorous and instructive style. His judgement was sound and his insight keen. Unusally well read in English history in all its phases. he was capable of giving information on this subject that most accurate and conclusive. In English literature his tastes were developed to a high degree.
He had been through all of the branches of Masonary and in July 1885, he was appointed Grand Director opf Ceremonies in the Great Priory of Knight Tenplars of Canada. He was a member of St. Pauls Anglican Church.
His mother was a Hollander by birth, came to London England with her parents when they were driven from their native land by, Napoleon Bonaparte.
A Lovable Girl Dead "Nellie Tipton is dead" was the news that went around the town Thursday evening, Feb 8, 1906 and it was met with expressions of genuine regret.
She was a most beautiful young woman, with a rear shade of Auburn hair; bright, kindly and vivacious this charming young woman ingratiated herself into the affection of her friends and acquaintance and though sickness came upon her, yet even down to the very end of he brief years of life did she still retain these qualities which made her a general favorite.During the year of 1901 , the author had the pleasure of visiting in the home of Thomas L. M. Tipton, and there met his beautiful daughter, and to the sacred memory of three weeks spent in that home and to her memory I dedicate the following poem.
TO A QUEENLY GIRL
Beautiful In Her Girlhood
Once upon a time during the lives of men,
Of the years just passed, about twenty of them,
A girl was born with auburn hair,
With a pleasant smile and a graceful air,
Who walked with a proud and queenly step,
With head erect and rosebud lips:
With sparkling eyes and silken hair,
Of an Auburn shade which is quite rare;
Complexion clear and like unto wax,
With a form that is graceful in fact intact.
Such is the description of the girl above,
To whom I dedicate this poem of love.
Signed W. Hord Tipton
Never Married
Died unmarried
No children
Never married
Had three children living in 1825.