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THOMAS TILBROOK, real-estate auctioneer, McKeesport, was born in Allegheny county, June 9, 1839. He was educated in the schools of Westmoreland county, and spent his boyhood on the farm. Arriving at the years of maturity, he became a stock-dealer, in which business he came into that knowledge of the world which has since made him so effective in whatever he undertook. August 9, 1862, he enlisted in Company H, One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Pennsylvania Volunteers, and served until the close of his term of enlistment as sergeant, participating in the battle of Fredericksburg, in the five-days battle at Chancellorsville, and in other contests. In 1864 he first came to McKeesport, and his occupation since that time has for the most part been that of a real-estate auctioneer. May 1, 1881, he was elected alderman, in which office he served the people with satisfaction until May 1, 1886. In 1883 he was elected chief magistrate of McKeesport, and was re-elected in 1884, serving the people two successive terms with honor, and refusing to be a candidate for the third term. Mr. Tilbrook has always been interested in questions of public import, and naturally political questions attracted his attention. Believing from the first that the principles of the republican party are fundamental to a republican form of government, he cast his first vote for Abraham Lincoln for president, and during his life he has been consistently and ardently republican.