Newspaper photo of McLane Tilton, Jr.
McLane Tilton, Jr. (1874-1936)[1] was president of the Virginia Glee Club during the Glee Club 1895-1896 season, and was Chairman of Banjos during the Glee Club 1893-1894 season. While a medical student at UVa, he served on the executive committee of the German Club (later PK German), was a member of O.F.C., the Z Society, and the Thirteen Club, and managed the baseball team.[2]
Tilton was the son of McLane Tilton, a Marine commander who led an amphibious landing on Kangwha Island in Korea in 1871.[3]
After completing his education at Virginia, Tilton attended the University of Michigan and graduated in 1900 with a B.L.. He returned to Charlottesville in 1919, when he founded both the Commerce National Bank and the Commerce Realty and Insurance Corporation.[4] He later became the Alumni Secretary of the University of Virginia.
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- ↑ "McLane Tilton, Jr. (1874-1936)". Find-A-Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=65490012. Retrieved 2013-10-02.
- ↑ Corks and Curls. 9. 1896. pp. 114-115 ff. http://books.google.com/books?id=0ahVAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22university%20of%20virginia%22%20%22bradford%20burwell%22&pg=PA115#v=onepage&q=glee&f=falseq&f=false.
- ↑ Tyson, Caroline. "Marine Amphibious Landing in Korea, 1871". http://www.history.navy.mil/library/online/marine_amphib_korea.htm. Retrieved 2013-12-04.
- ↑ Bruce, Philip Alexander (1924). History of Virginia. http://xtf.lib.virginia.edu/xtf/view?docId=2006_08/uvaBook/tei/b004865476.xml;chunk.id=d60;toc.depth=1;toc.id=;brand=default;query=glee%20club#1.