Los Angeles County CA Archives Biographies.....Todd, J. W. 1874 - 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)

    J. W. TODD, junior member of the undertaking firm of Bresee Brothers and
Todd, Santa Monica, is a native of Missouri, was born at Pleasant Hill, in Cass
County, that state, November 3rd, 1874. His father, Charles F. Todd, for many
years having successfully engaged in business in Missouri, has for eight years
lived in retirement in Los Angeles. Mr. Todd received an academic schooling at
Wichita, Kansas, and later at Garfield University, same city. He came with the
family to California in 1899 and soon thereafter took a position with Bresee
Brothers, leading undertakers of Los Angeles, where he acquired a thorough
knowledge of undertaking in all its branches. In 1906 he organized the firm of
Bresee Brothers & Todd, purchased the undertaking business of A. M. Guidinger,
holding a one-third interest in the same and assumed entire management of the
same. The building owned and occupied by the company is one of the most spacious
and architectural in Santa Monica. The furnishings and equipment are modern and
complete in all respects

    Mr. Todd married in 1893 Miss Olive Miller, a daughter of M. K. Miller, a
prominent business man and two terms mayor of the City of Salida, Colorado. Mrs.
Todd is a lady of fine mental attainments and was for more than nine years a
teacher in the public schools of Salida.

    Mr. Todd is a member of the B. P. O. E., I. O. O. F., Modern Woodmen,
Fraternal Brotherhood and of the Christian Church. Mrs. Todd is prominently
identified with the Order of the Eastern Star and is an active member of the
Crescent Bay Women's Club, Ocean Park, and the Santa Monica Women's Club.


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Ingersoll's century history, Santa Monica Bay cities: prefaced with a brief
history of the state of California, a condensed history of Los Angeles County,
1542 to 1908: supplemented with an encyclopedia of local biography and
embellished with views of historic landmarks and portraits of representative
people.

Los Angeles: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)


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