George Henry Tilton III was born on April 8, 1922, in Manhattan, New York, New York, according to the New York, New York Birth Index at Ancestry.com. His parents were George Henry Tilton II and Theodora P. Tiffany.
The 1930 United States Census said Tilton was the oldest of three siblings. The family of five were Manhattan residents at 1105 Park Avenue. Tilton’s father was a real estate agent.
In the 1940 census, the Tiltons lived in Palm Beach, Florida at 313 Chileau Avenue. In 1935 they were residing in Littleton, New Hampshire.
Tilton’s obituary in The Advocate (Stamford, Connecticut), June 15, 2005, said
Mr. Tilton was a 1940 graduate of St. George’s School in Newport, Rhode Island, and 1944 graduate of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. He served in the United States Navy during WWII as an engineering officer and was stationed in the South Pacific. He attained the rank of lieutenant and remained in the naval reserve until 1954.
On August 24, 1948, Tilton and Jeanne Therese Alippe obtained a Manhattan marriage license. Their upcoming marriage was reported in the Asbury Park Press (New Jersey), September 10, 1948.
Former Belford Girl to MarryNew York.—The marriage of Miss Jeanne Therese Alippe, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Alippe, former Belford, N. J. residents, now of New York, to George Henry Tilton 3d, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Henry Tilton, jr., Littleton, N. H., will take place in New York tomorrow.The ceremony will be performed in the Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity by the Rev. Charles V. Foelsch, a reception will follow at the Hotel New Weston.The bride, attended by her sister, Mrs. Herbert L. Boettcher, will be gowned in ice blue satin with matching headress and navy blue accessories. She will carry an old-fashioned bouquet.John Tilton will serve as best man for his brother, whose ushers are to be Joseph Daffron and Douglas J. Alippe.The bride attended Columbia university. Mr. Tilton, an alumnus of Dartmouth college, is a staff writer with Fiction House, inc.After a trip to Atlantic City, the couple will live in New York.
Jeanne Therese Alippe was born on September 17, 1924, in Silverlake, New Jersey, according to her Social Security application.
The 1930 census recorded Alippe as the second of three children born to Philip Alippi and Marie Antoinette Nollet. They were Manhattan, New York City residents at 75 Old Broadway. Her father was a perfume salesman.
In the 1940 census, the Alippi family lived at 140 West 62nd Street in Manhattan.
Alippe’s Social Security application had the spelling of her surname as Alippi in July 1941. Two years later the spelling changed to Alippe. Who’s Who of American Comic Books 1928–1999, Grand Comics Database and Women in Comics Wiki have her name as Jean Alipe.
According to the 1950 census, Tilton and Alippe made their home at 155 East 47th Street in Manhattan. His occupation was listed as other. She was a managing editor at a magazine publisher.
Alippe was mentioned in Women and the Comics (1985). After comics, Alippe was the editor of Medical Marketing & Media.
In 1969, Dartmouth College published Class of 1944 Twenty-Five Years Later 1944–1969 which included photographs of Tilton in 1944 and 1969.
The Advocate said
... Mr. Tilton was a member of ASCAP and wrote several popular songs in the 1940s, including Seven Come Heaven, There’s Something in My Eye and Nine Loves. He was also a staff writer for Fiction House in New York at that time and worked on the popular adventure comics, Sheena, Queen of the Jungle and The Tiger Woman, as well as other pulp fiction. He joined Fawcett Publications in 1950 and worked there until 1970 as Managing Editor. George and Jeanne moved to Stamford, Connecticut in 1954 and lived there until 1999. ...
Tilton and Alippe retired to Alexandria, Virginia where she passed away on December 15, 2002. (Another obituary for Alippe is here.) Tilton passed away on March 18, 2005. (Another obituary appeared in Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, November/December 2005.) They were laid to rest at Glenwood Cemetery.
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Jeanne Alippe, Ruth Atkinson, Olive Bailey, Valerie Barclay, Vivian Berg, Helen Chu aka Duffy Mohler, Ellen Cole, Corinne Boyd Dillon, Anahid Dinkjian,
Barbara Clark Fogel, Evelyn Gaines aka Lynn Lovelace, Merna Gamble, Gerda Gattel, Selma Meyers Gleit, Jane Krom Grammer, Anita Greene,
Georgette Sauterel, Marie Severin, Marcia Snyder, Lora Sprang aka Pat Gordon, Serena Summerfield, Daisy Swayze, Terry Szenics, Claire Szep,
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