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WILLIAM BIDDLE, fun., born June 1, 1842, in Sangamon county, and re- sides four miles north of Farmingdale, Sangamon county, Illinois-1874.
ABIGAIL B., born March 20, 1845, in Sangamon county, married April 6, 1865, to Thomas Maylor, and lives near Coyville, Wilson county, Kansas.
ZACHARY, born Oct. 23, 1846, in Sangamon county, and died Oct. 15, 1864.
William B. Taylor, Sen., died May 26, 1852, and his widow died August 22, 1860, both in Sangamon county. He was re- lated to Nicholas Biddle, who was asso- ciated with the first United States bank.
THAYER, JOSEPH, was born June 30, 1786, at Amherst, Massachusetts. He moved to Springfield, Illinois, in 1834. He is the father of Rev. Erastus W. Thayer, of Chatham, Illinois, and of Edward R. Thaver, one of the oldest merchants of Springfield. Joseph Thayer is in his ninety-first year, and resides in Springfield, Illinois. His brother, Asahel, resides in Waverly, Illinois. His brother, Martin, was the father of William P. Thayer. See his name. Joseph Thayer's brother, Stephen, was the father of Henry Thayer, of Chatham, Illinois. Sec Huston.
THAYER, ASAHEL, born Feb. 10, 1790, in Amherst, Massachusetts, was married May, 1813, to Mary Cannon, of Greenwich, Massachusetts. They had eleven children, five of whom died young. They moved to Chatham, Sangamon county, Illinois, May 14, 1839, thence to Morgan county, Illinois, in IS46. Ot their children-
LOIS K., born in 1814 in Amherst, Massachusetts, was married in February, 1839, to George W. Crooker. See his name. Mrs. Lois Crooker died suddenly at Taylorville, Illinos, July 5, 1876, after the Crooker family sketch was printed. See sketch of G. W. Crooker.
ASAHEL E., born in 1821 in Am- herst, was a member of the junior class in Amherst College, when he came to Illinois with his father, began the study of medicine with Dr. J. B. Lewis, of Chatham, and died in his twenty-first year.
GUSTAVUS II., born in 1825, in
Amherst, is a graduate of Illinois College, and at one time a minister in the M. E. Church. He is unmarried, and resides with his father.
HELEN, born in 1827, in Amherst, died in her twenty-eighth year.
EMMA, born in 1832, in Amherst, was married January, 1850, to T. Milton Metcalf. He is now county clerk of Macoupin county. They have an adopted daughter, and reside in Carlinville, Illinois.
FRANCES 4., born in 1834 in Am- herst, resides with her father.
Mrs. Mary Thayer died May, 1866, in Waverly, where Asahel Thayer now re- sides -- 1876.
THAYER, WILLIAM P., was born March 15, 1815, in Petersburg, Virginia. His father, Martin Thayer, was a native of Amherst, Massachusetts, and when a young man went to Petersburg, Virginia, where he engaged in business, and was there married to Mrs. Mary C. Mason, whose maiden name was Russell. When the subject of this sketch was about seven years old, his mother died, and his father closed his business and returned to Amherst, Massachusetts, where William P. remained until he was fifteen years old, when he went to New York city as clerk in a dry goods house. About a year later his father engaged in the dry goods busi- ness in Philadelphia, and William P. joined him there asclerk. In 1835 the latter went to Newville, Cumberland county, Pennsyl- vania, and began merchandizing on his own account. He was there married, Jan. 4, 1837, to Mary Huston, who was born in Newville, Jan. 21, 1817. Mr. Thayer closed his business there, and started Jan. 31, 1838, for the west, accompanied by his wife, babe and servant girl. They traveled in a two-horse wagon, fitted up with a stove, and windows on the sides, so that the family might be comfortable, and also see the country as they passed along. After six months travel and many hair-breadth escapes from icy roads and high water, they arrived in Springfield, Illinois, March 13, 1838, and came very near stalling, with his wagon to the axles in the mud, near the southeast corner of the State House Square. They had seven children in San- gamon county. Of all their children-
JAMES H., born Sept. 19, 1837, in
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Pennsylvania, died July 25, 1861, in San- gamon county, Illinois.
SARAH Y., born Sept. 2, 1839, in San- gamon county, was married Oct. 14, 1857, to Thomas P. Boone, who was born June 27, 1833, in Elton, Todd county, Ky. He is a distant relative of Daniel Boone, the famous hunter and Indian fighter. Mr. and Mrs. Boone had seven children. WILLIE I. died in his seventh year, MARY E. died in infancy, MARTIN R., CHARLES H., FRANKIE P., and HARRY F., live with their parents. The youngest died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Boone reside in Springfield, Illinois.
. MARTIN R., born Feb. 27, 1842, was married Sept. 19, 1867, to Harriet Melvin, a native of Beaver county, Pennsylvania. They have three children, MAUD, LIL- LIAN and RUSSELL, and live in Chatham, Sangamon county, Illinois.
WILLIAMI P., fun., born Jan. 10, 1846, was married at Paris, Ill., June 26, 1873, to Mollie E. Patton, who was born August 21, 1854. They reside in Spring- field, Ill.
ARCHIE F., EDWARD R, and BERTIE reside with their father.
DOLLIE, next to the youngest child, was married in Chatham in September, I873, to Joseph Hudson, an agent of the Chicago and Alton Railroad, and resides at Chenoa, Illinois.
Mrs. Mary H. Thayer died June 10, 1872, in Chatham, Ill., and William P. Thayer, Sen., was married Dec. 31, 1873, in Springfield, to Elizabeth Dresser. See sketch of Rer. Chas. Dresser and family. Wm. P. Thayer, Sen., is, in connection with his son, Martin R., proprietor of the Chatham flouring mill, and resides in Springfield, Ill.
THAXTON, JAMES H., was born Oct. 28, 1823, in Allen county, Kentucky. He came to Sangamon coun- ty, arriving in the fall of 1839, in what is now Fancy Creek township. He was married in 1845 to Margaret Huffman. They had six living children in Sangamon county, namely-
ARMINDA, born in Sangamon county, married Oscar F. Shepherd. See his name.
MARY A. married James B. Van Meter. See his name.
CLARINDA, LEWIS, CARO- LINE and RHODA live with their
parents near Sherman, Sangamon county, Illinois-1874.
James H. Thaxton had a sister who married Thomas Brown. See his name.
THOMPSON, JOHN, born March 28, 1783, in Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, left Harrisburg in 1802 for Grant county, Kentucky, and was married there January 9, 1810, to Sarah Points, who was born Feb. 12, 1791. They had two children, and Mrs. Sarah Thompson died Feb. 21, 1815. John Thompson was married Nov. 13, 1817, in Montgomery county to Elizabeth Ferguson, who was born June 18, 1791, in that county. They settled in Bourbon county, Kentucky, and had five children there. They returned to Montgomery county, where four chil- dren were born, and moved from there to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving Oct. 8, 1836, near Springfield, and a few weeks later moved to a farm
adjoining Mechanicsburg on the west. Of their eleven children-
GAMES, born Nov. 7, ISIo, in Ken- tucky, married a Miss Black and moved to the vicinity of Greencastle, Indiana, in 1835, and died there soon after.
JOHN, born August 1, : S13, in Ken- tucky, died in Sangamon county, Nov. 16, IS37. The children by the second mar- riage are-
MARY G., born Oct. 1, ISIS, in Bour- bon county, Kentucky, was married in San- gamon county May 30, 1837, to Benjamin B. Branson. See his name.
HARVEY, born Feb. 2, 1820, in Bourbon county, Kentucky, was married March 4, 1844, in Sangamon county to Mary B. Hughes, a native of Bourbon county, Kentucky, also. She died in November, IS64. He was married May 6, 1851, to Mary A. Patton, who was born April 9, 1832, in Pike county, Missouri. They had one child, ED- WARD P., born Feb. 24, 1852, and Mrs. Mary A. Thompson died. Harvey Thompson was married Sept. 9, 1869, at Pittsfield, Pike county, Illinois, to Mrs. Ruth A. Hubhard, whose maiden name was Davis, a native of Scott county, Illinois. She had two children by a former mar- riage, MARY L. and THOMAS J. HUBBARD, who live with their mother. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Thompson reside in Mechanicsburg, Sangamon county, Ill.
WILLIAM F., born April 21, 1821,
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in Bourbon county, Kentucky, was mar- ried in Sangamon county, Illinois, to Mar- garet Vanderen. They had two children, one of whom died young. ELIZA F. lives with her mother. W. F. Thompson died Sept. 23, 1851, and his widow mar- ried Louis Johnson. See his namc.
JOSIAH M., born Oct. 11, 1822, in Bourbon county, Kentucky, was married in Sangamon county, April 13, 1860, to Maggie Muncc, who was born Jan. 17, 1837, at Rising Sun, Indiana. They have three children, ELIZA, JOHN A. and THOMAS M., who live with their parents in Mechanicsburg, Illinois.
PRISCILLA M., born April 22, 1824, in Bourbon county, Kentucky, was married in Sangamon county to John R. Grove. See his name. John R. Grove died Sept. 20, 1849, and his widow mar- ried Rev. Joseph M. Grout, who was born near Boston, Massachusetts. Mr. Grout was pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Shelbyville, Illinois, and died of cholera, August 7, 1855, giving his life as a sacrifice in his efforts to relieve the sick. His widow died at Mechanicsburg, Dec. 2, 1855. They left two sons, WILLIAM T .. born March 12, 1853, in Mechanics- burg, Illinois, was married Oct. 20, 1875, in his native place, to Georgie E. Hall, daughter of David S. Hall. See his name. William T. Grout is cashier in Thompson & Bro's bank, and resides in Mechanicsburg, Illinois. JOSEPH M. Grout, born Sept. 21, 1855, in Mechanics- burg, Illinois, was brought up by his aunt, Mrs. Branson, graduated at Illinois Col- lege, in Jacksonville, June, 1876, and is now-November, 1876-a law student in Springfield, Illinois.
ANDREW TODD, born Jan. 30, 1827, in Bourbon county, Kentucky, was married Dec. 19, 1850, to Elizabeth C. Grove. They have three living children, WILLIAM W., LAURA B. and MAGGIE E., who live with their parents in Mechanicsburg, Illinois.
SALLY A., born July 10, 1828, died in Kentucky.
ELIZABETH A., born April 11, 1830, in Montgomery county, Kentucky, was married in Sangamon county to Peter L. Earnest. Sce his name.
HENRY CLAY, born August 10, 1833, in Montgomery county, Kentucky, was married at Brighton, Illinois, to
Maggie E. Johnson. They have three children, ADDIE L., HENRY R. and ZOIE, and reside at Boulder City, Colo- rado.
John Thompson died Oct. 14, 1855, and his widow died Nov. 22, 1868, both at Mechanicsburg, Sangamon county, Ill.
THOMPSON, ROBERT B., born March 17, 1795, at Saratoga, N. Y., came to Springfield in the autumn of 1824. He was a carpenter by trade, and found work immediately. It is believed that he nailed on the first shingles, and hung the first panel door in Springfield. He was married Jan. 13, 1825, to Mary Matheny, sister of Noah, Charles, James and Cook, They had ten children, namely :
LUCY M., born August 26, 1826, in Springfield, was married Nov. 12, 1850, to George Shake. They have four children. GEORGE A. is a dry goods clerk in Pal- mer, Ill. CHARLES L., LUCY M. and ANNA M., the three latter reside with their parents, near Palmer, Christian coun- ty, Ill.
MELVINA A., born August 24, 1828, in Springfield, was married there Feb. 14, 1856, to Colby Smith. They have three children, NOAH M., CLARA C. and ALMA L., and reside at Fort Scott, Kan- sas.
JOSEPH R., born August 9, 1830, died in his twentieth year.
MARTHA C. f., born Ang. 20, 1833, in Springfield, married Sept. 12, 1852, to William F. Hill. They have one child, WILLIAM A., who resides with his parents, near Joplin, Jasper county, Mo.
GEORGE R. S., born Dec. 2, 1835, in Springfield, married Martha T. Miller, and died in January, 1853, leaving one child, GEORGETTA. Mrs. Martha T.Thomp- son married J. S. Robinette, and resides in Springfield, Ill.
MARY E., born Feb. 8, 1838, in Knox county, Ill., died Jan. 7, 1845.
CHARLES R., born March 29, 1840, in Knox county, Illinois, married Eliza- beth A. Sears, of Humboldt, Kansas. They have seven children, MARY W., HAR- RISON S., MATILDA, ANNA, MARTHA,CHARLES S., and ALMA, who reside with their parents, near Golden Gate, Chautauqua county, Kansas.
JAMES M., born Nov. 27, 1841, in Warren county, Illinois, died in April, 1 860.
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ISABELLA F., born March 29, 1844, in Sangamon county, married B. F. Watts, Nov. S, 1867. They have three children, ROBERT T., MARY M. and VIOLA I., who reside with their parents, near Pal- mer, Christian county, Ill.
NOAH A., born Angust 5, 1847, in Sangamon county, died in his eighth year.
Robert B. Thompson died March 9, IS53, two and a half miles northeast of Chatham, and Mrs. Mary Thompson, died July 30, 1872, in Christian county. Both were buried in Sangamon county, Illinois.
THOMPSON, SAMUEL M., was born Feb. 12, 1801, in Davidson coun- ty, eighteen miles west of Nashville, Tenn. He educated himself, and, in connection with General Moses K. Anderson, taught a military school, having branches in David- son and Dickson counties. Mr. Thomp- son came to Sangamon county, Illinois, ar- riving in the fall of IS2S in what is now Cartwright township. He returned to Davidson county, Tennessee, and was mar- ried in February, 1831, to Cynthia Mc- Crary. He returned to Sangamon county in the spring of that year. Mr. Thomp- son volunteered in 1832 for the campaign against the Indians under their chief, Black Hawk. He was in the company of which Abraham Lincoln was Captain, and was elected First Lieutenant at the time the company was organized, on Rich- land creek. Lincoln was elected Captain at the same time and place. That com- pany united at Beardstown with another from Sangamon county, under Captain Gooding. They were ordered from Beards- town to Rushville, and were consolidated with two other companies to form the 4th Reg. Ill. Vols. Lieutenant Thompson was elected Colonel of the Regiment. He was thus promoted over Captain Lincoln. The latter, however, it should be said, was not a candidate for the office of Colonel. The call was for thirty days, expecting the Indians would retreat across the Missis- sippi river as they had done the year be- fore. The savages did not retreat, and the regiment was out about sixty days without an engagement. It was disbanded and mustered out of service at Ottowa, June, 1832, by Colonel Zachary Taylor, after- wards President of the United States. Colonel S. M. Thompson and wife had one child born in Sangamon county, and moved to Beardstown in the fall of 1832,
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where one child was born. In 1836 Colo- nel T. moved to Burlington, Iowa, where three children were born, all of whom died in infancy. Of the two eldest --
ALETHIA A., born Feb. 13, 1832, in Sangamon county, Illinois, was married July 31, 1848, in Monroe county, Iowa, to Isaac Hittle, Dec. 7, 1849, in Rush county, Indiana. They had eleven children. One died in infancy. CYNTHIA E., born Feb. 5, IS51, was married Feb. 15, 1865, to John Blakeley. They reside near Wil- liamsburg, Franklin county, Kansas. CLARISSA A., born May 15, 1853, was married August 12, 1875, to David Horbi- son, and reside in Howard county, Kansas. WILLIAM H., SAMUEL A., LIDA M., SABINA, MARY A., ISAAC O., JAMES A. and ROSA A., reside with their parents near Hillsdale, Miami county, Kansas.
ZANE E., born May IS, 1834, at Beardstown, Illinois, was married May 4, IS51, at Eddyville, Iowa, to William Briggs, of Ohio. They had seven chil- dren, MAHLON S., OLIVE, JULIA, ANNIE, CHARLIE, GEORGE and GRANT. Mr. Briggs lost his life in attempting to rescue his son from a coal bank infected with fire damp. He failed in his efforts, and a third man, who came to their assistance, lost his life. This acci- dent occurred in 1870 or '71. Mrs. Briggs by that calamity was incapacited from taking care of herself and the children re- side near Eddyville, Iowa.
Mrs. Cynthia Thompson died in Octo- ber, 1843, near Burlington, Iowa. Colonel Thompson was married in 1855 in Ma- haska county, Iowa, to Mrs. Nancy Wal- don, whose maiden name was Sullivan. She was a native of Davidson county, Tennssee, also. They reside in Osage county, near Williamsburg, Franklin coun- ty, Kansas.
Colonel Thompson has always heard that railroad trains were swift, but he was able to keep ahead of them until Novem- ber 26, 1874, when he entered a car for the first time at Garnet, Kansas, to visit his old friends in Illinois.
THOMAS, Mrs. FRANCES, was born in Culpepper county, Virginia, moved to Kentucky, thence to Missouri, and to Sangamon county in 1837, with her daughter ---
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MAR 2, who married William B. Tay- lor. Sce his name. Her son
FESSE B. Thomas, was one of the two first United States Senators from Illi- nois.
Mrs. Frances Thomas died in Sanga- mon county in 1855.
THORNTON, WILLIAM, was born Jan. 17, 1789, in Caroline coun- ty, Virginia. He was married Sept. 6, ISOS, to Judith P. Thornton, who was born in the same county, June 28, 1788. Soon after they were married they moved, in company with her father, to Bourbon county, Kentucky, where they had seven children and moved to Harrison county, where two children were born. They moved to Montgomery county in the same State, and from there to Sangamon coun- ty, Illinois, arriving in the fall of 1834, stopping one year in what is now Wood- side township, and in 1835 moved on land Mr. Thornton had previously entered, in what is now the town of Chatham. Of their children-
MILDRED R., married in Kentucky to Rev. Dewey Whitney. They came to Sangamon county with her parents, and had two children. Mr. Whitney was pas- tor of the Second Presbyterian Church in Springfield a few years, when he aban- doned the ministry in consequence of fail- ing health, studied medicine, and after practicing at different places in New York, moved to Yazoo county, Mississippi, where he was killed by a fall from a horse in 1856. Their daughter, JULIA O., mar- ried George O. Allen and lives in St. Louis, Missouri. WILLIAM D., married in Brandon, Mississippi, to Mrs. Rebecca Carroll, whose maiden name was Cal- houn. They both died leaving one child. Mrs. Mildred R. Whitney died June 17, 1871, at the house of her daughter, Mrs. Allen, in St. Louis, Missouri.
MARY E., married Samuel N. Fullin- wider. Sce his name.
EMMA D., married John R. Duryee, and had two children. JOHN W., mar- ried Lucy M. Whitney and lives at Mar- shalltown, Iowa. MARY L., lives with her mother. Mr. Duryce died Jan. 31, 1860, and his widow and daughter reside in Chatham, Sangamon county, Illinois- I874.
MARTHA W., married Rev. Josiah Porter. See his name.
WILLIAM S., married Jan. 1, 1838, . to Roxana Lyman, and he died June II, 1838, less than six months after he was married. His widow married Aaron Palmer, moved to Chicago, and died there in I871.
ELIZABETH W., is unmarried, and lives at Chatham, on the homestead settled by her parents in 1835.
LUCY D., married Francis Conway Thornton, had two children. He died Tune 26, 1844, and his widow married Wil- liam K. Hardin. They have three chil- dren and live in Virden, Illinois.
JUDITH P. is unmarried, and lives at the homestead in Chatham, Illinois.
LYMAN T. died in Kentucky at three years of age.
Mrs. Judith P. Thornton died Dec. 29, 1851, and Colonel William Thornton died May 7, 1871, both at Chatham, Sangamon county, Illinois. Mr. Thornton was a Lieutenant in the war of 1812 from Ken- tucky.
The Misses Thornton remember that on the day of the "sudden change," Dec. 20, 1836, a man by the name of Lucas, who lived about a mile and a half north- east of Chatham, rode to their house. It was raining when he started, and when he had got half the distance the cold wave struck him. His overcoat was frozen to his saddle, his feet frozen in the stirrups, and he so chilled as to be helpless. Their father (Mr. Thornton) had to knock the ice from the stirrups before he could be taken from the horse.
TIPTON, DAVID B., born May 4, 1799, in Blount county, Tennessee, was married there to Rebecca Jones, who was born in 1802 in Carter county, in the same State. They had three children in Tennessee, and the family moved in 1837 to Clarke county, Illinois, and a year later moved to Sangamon county, arriving October, IS38, in what is now Chatham township, where they had five children. Of their children-
WILLIAM f., born Oct. 1, 1830, in Blount county, Tennessee, married in Sangamon county, Feb. 26, IS52, to Martha Fordner, who was horn March 15, 1833, in Green county, Tennessee. They have seven children, JAMES, TEMPERANCE, LEWIS H., MAR- GARET J., DAVID B., MARY A.
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and MATTIE, and live near Curran, Sangamon county, Illinois.
PHEBE A. married Charles Fer- guson, have three children, and their resi- dence is not known.
LAI INA married John H. Large, who enlisted in Co. B, 30th Ill. Inf., and died in 1863 in Mississippi. She married Philip Fordner, had three children by each marriage, and lives near Curran, Illinois.
TENNESSEE, born 1840 in Sanga- mon county, married Peter Large, and live in Morgan county, Illinois.
ELIZA, born 1842, married Theodore Leggett. He died, leaving a widow and one child in Curran township.
MARY A. married Joseph Large, has two children, and lives in Fort Scott, Kansas.
DAVID B., born Feb. 12, 1847, mar- ried Ellen Large, Feb. 20, 1867, and had one child. He served four years and eight months in Co. B, 11th Ill. Cav. He is in Santa Fe, New Mexico-1873.
Mrs. Rebecca Tipton died in March, 1849, and David B. Tipton died January, 1863, both in Curran township, Sangamon county, Illinois.
TODD. The first of this family in America came from the north of Ireland, and it is known that they were originally from Scotland. A man by the name of Todd-it is thought that his first name was David-was married in Ireland to Hannah Owen, and came to America, with other members of the family, previous to the American Revolution. They settled at Pequea, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, and had three sons, John, Robert and Levi. They were educated hy their uncle, parson John Todd, who conducted a literary institution in Virginia. These three brothers emigrated about 1778 or '79 to what became Fayette coun- ty, Kentucky. They were all influential men in the Indian wars, and in forming the institutions of that State. The eldest:
John Todd, under commission from Patrick Henry, Governor of Virginia, dated Dec. 12, 1778, at Williamsburg, then the capital of the State, was authorized to establish the county of Illinois. He was styled in his commission the County Lieutenant Commandant. As such he organized the county and thus became in fact, though not in name, the first
Governor of Illinois. Sce page 28. His first act was to issue a proclamation with reference to land titles, June 15, 1779. Nearly three years later he had been to Virginia, and on his way back made it convenient to visit his family in Kentucky. While at Lexington, news came that the Indians west of the Ohio river were cross- ing over into Kentucky. Colonel Todd, as one of the commanders, was slain at the battle of Blue Licks, August 18, 1782.
Robert Todd, the second brother, ac- quired the title of General in connection with the Indian wars, and later military operations in Kentucky. None of his de- scendants ever came to Illinois. One daughter became the wife of General William O. Butler, of Carrollton, Ken- tucky.
Levi Todd, the youngest of the three, was engaged in the early Indian wars in Kentucky, and was a lieutenant under Colonel Clark in the expedition that left Corn Island, opposite Louisville, and cap- tured Fort Gates and the village of Kas- kaskia, July 4, 1778. M. Rocheblave, the commander of the fort, was so mortified at his having been surprised and captured without firing a gun, that he would not accept any courtesies from his captors, and was sent under a military guard to Virginia. Lieutenant. Levi Todd com- manded the squad of soldiers who took the prisoner back. He afterwards ac- quired the title of General, was clerk of the circuit court of Fayette county, Kentucky, the greater part of his life, and lived and died in Lexington. General Levi Todd's daughter, Hannah, was the mother of Hon. John T. Stuart. See his name. His son, Robert Todd, was the father of Mrs. Ninian W. Edwards, Mrs. Dr. William S. Wallace, Mrs. C. M. Smith and Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, all of Springfield, Illinois. One only of his children became an early settler of Sanga- mon county, of whom the following is a sketch:
TODD, JOHN, was born April 27, 1787, near Lexington, Fayette county, Kentucky. He was among the earliest graduates of Transylvania University at Lexington. He next entered the Medical University of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and graduated there. Dr. Todd was mar- ried July 1, 1813, in Lexington, Kentucky, to Elizabeth Smith, daughter of Rev.
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John Blair Smith, D. D. She was born
April 18, 1793, in Philadelphia. Her mother was a daughter of General Nash, a leader in the American Revolution from Virginia. Dr. Todd was appointed Sur- geon General of the Kentucky troops in the war of 1812, and was at the battle and massacre of the River Raisin in Canada, where he was captured. After the war he returned to Lexington and practiced there. He was for a short time at Bards- town, Kentucky, and from there, in 1817, moved to Edwardsville, Illinois. In 1827 he was appointed by President John Quincy Adams, Register of the United States Land Office, at Springfield, and at once moved there. He remained in office until he was removed solely for political reasons, by President Jackson in 1829. Dr. John Todd and wife had six living chil- dren. Of their children-
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