Francis Redding Tillou (c. 1795 – July 10, 1865) was an American lawyer and politician from New York, and co-founder of the Children's Village.
[2] In August 1835, the Federal Land Office at Green Bay put up for sale the area which would become Madison, Wisconsin, and on October 7, 1835, Tillou bought the first 100 acres.
Tillou lived at a country estate which he named "Tillietudlem", in a place then known as Pleasant Valley in Hackensack Township, Bergen County, New Jersey.
[3][4] On March 1, 1849, Tillou was granted the right to run a ferry-boat service from his estate's landing on the Hudson River to New York City.
[6] In November 1851,[7] Tillou was elected on the Democratic ticket Recorder of New York City, and remained in office from 1852 until the end of 1854,[8][9][10] serving under Mayors, Ambrose C. Kingsland and Jacob A.