Transcribed from Goodspeed’s History of  Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present; Together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketches of from Twenty-Five to Thirty Counties of East Tennessee, Besides a Valuable Fund of Notes, Original Observations, Reminiscences, etc., etc. (Chicago and Nashville:  The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1887), pp. 962-987.  See footnote below for on-line access.

E. C. TIPTON, junior member of the firm of HAWK & TIPTON, Cleveland, and son of Col. J. C. TIPTON, was born in Cleveland, November 11, 1854. His education was confined to the schools of Cleveland. In 1874 he began in the newspaper business as a compositor, and afterward became one of the proprietors of the Cleveland Herald. Having taken a commercial course at Chattanooga, he kept books for a firm in Knoxville. For nearly five years he was railway postal clerk between Cleveland and Selma, Ala. In 1886 he joined Mr. HAWK in business as shown elsewhere. Politically he is a Republican.

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