Morgan-Montgomery County AlArchives Biographies.....Todd, R. L. 1864 - 
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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  R. L. TODD was born in Montgomery in 1864, and is a son of James J. and Louisa
P. (Stringfellow) Todd, both natives of Virginia, Jas. J. Todd was secretary and
treasurer of the Atlanta & Western Railroad and the Montgomery & Eufaula
Railroad until his death, in 1885. The mother also died in 1883. They had two
children. William E., of Montgomery, and R. L. Todd, who was reared and educated
in Montgomery, and conducted the grocery business there for four years. He came
to Decatur in August, in 1887, and formed a partnership with James A. Ellsberry,
under the firm name of Todd & Ellsberry.

  James A. Ellsberry was born in Montgomery in 1859. He is a son of James H. and
Fannie E. (Gleason) Ellsberry, natives of Georgia and North Carolina. The father
died in Montgomery.

  J. A. Ellsberry was reared and educated in Montgomery, and commenced his
active life as a baggage-master on the M. & C. Railroad, where he subsequently
became a conductor, and finally was employed in the running and forwarding
departments of the Central & Western Railroad. He then became a member of the
present firm.


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Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART IV.
MONOGRAPHS OF THE PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA,
TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF MANY OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVE PEOPLE.


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