Journalist, Suffragette. She was a 19th-century American suffragist who was a very independent woman for her time and a founder of the Brooklyn Woman's Club. She was a poetry editor of "The Revolution," the newspaper of the National Woman Suffrage Association, which was founded by woman's rights advocates Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Born in Brooklyn, "Libby," as she was called, married the 20-year-old Theodore Tilton on October 2, 1855. The couple had four children, but two died young, within months of each other, leaving another son and a daughter living to adulthood. She was described as being a petite young lady with an olive-colored complexion and beautiful dark ringlets of hair, and this beauty of a young girl followed into her middle age. Becoming a figure in the public's eye, her husband was the editor of the newspaper "The Independent," along with publishing poetry and at least twelve hymns. Her husband wrote numerous editorials on women's rights, religion, and politics, which were published in various newspapers in the Northeast. Her husband had become a business colleague as well as friend of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, a liberal protestant pastor and brother of the author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," Harriet Beecher Stowe. Beecher had performed their marriage and they were members of his church. In a notorious 1874 sex scandal, her husband sued Rev. Beecher for millions of dollars in damages for alleged adultery with her. In the rhetoric of the time, "criminal conversation" and "alienation of affection" were used. Airing dirty laundry, her husband followed by writing an open letter, printed in the "Brooklyn Eagle" and Beecher followed with a published reply. Beecher was the pastor of a large church, the Brooklyn Plymouth Church Congregation, which had substantial monetary funding and making him one of the highest-paid clergies in the United States. She had received from Beecher a series of clandestine letters, which eventually proved to be extremely embarrassing to the pastor during the trial. With Chief Justice Joseph Neilson presiding over the courtroom, the six-week trial resulted in a hung jury with the general public ambivalent of the guilt of her and the well-respected pastor. After eight days and 52 ballots, three jurors voted against Beecher, but nine thought him innocent. She was not called to the witness stand. Sources state that three years after the trial, she confessed in a published letter admitting her adultery with Beecher. Even into the 21st century, historians and scholars cannot agree on the guilt with several books being published on the trial. Photographs of the trial are archived at the Library of Congress. With her reputation in ruins, the trial brought her personal shame as well as shame to her work for women's rights. Though not divorced, their marriage was over with her husband eventually going into self-imposed exile in Paris in 1883, where he died and was buried in France. Her professional and personal papers, along with her husband's, are archived at the New York Public Library, Department Archives and Manuscripts. Although buried in her family plot, her grave marker simply states "Grandmother" with no name or dates.