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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1896)

WILLIAM ADDISON TODD, M. D., a regular practicing physician of Chariton, Iowa,
was born in Danville, Indiana, April 4, 1838, and is a son of Dr. Henry G. and
Serena (Henton) Todd. The father was a native of Louisville, Kentucky, born in
1811, and was educated in Lexington, that State, being graduated at Transylvania
Medical College in 1831. He practiced medicine in Indiana for the long period of
sixty-one years, and died in Danville, in October, 1892. His wife was born in
Highland county, Ohio, February 17, 1816, and their marriage was celebrated in
Danville, Indiana, in 1831. In their family were nine children, of whom only
four are now living, namely: Laura, now the wife of Joseph O'Haver, a
marble-cutter and dealer in monuments and tombstones; Marshall is engaged in the
real-estate business in Salt Lake City; Henrietta makes her home in Danville
with her aged mother. The eldest of the family was Minerva Jane, wife of Rev. W.
N. Steele. She died in Rossville, Illinois. John Orlando died in Danville,
Indiana. Sarah died in the same city, at the age of sixteen. Maggie died at the
old home there, when eight years of age, and Andrew died in infancy. His
paternal grandfather was of English lineage and his grandmother of Irish
descent, while the maternal grandparents also descended from English ancestors.

   Dr. Todd, whose name heads this record, was educated in the city schools of
Danville and in Wabash College at Crawfordsville, which he entered in 1854,
pursuing a special course of two years. He began the study of medicine in the
office of his father, who was a physician of Indianapolis. He then engaged in
the drug business for several years, before he entered medical college, and
abandoned that business only when his health failed. Deciding then upon the
medical profession as a life work, he entered the University of Michigan, where
he pursued one course of lectures. He then became a student in the Indiana
Medical College at Indianapolis, at which he was graduated in the class of 1874.
He has been successful in his chosen field of labor, and has succeeded in
establishing a reputation which numbers him among the foremost physicians of
this locality. He has now a liberal patronage and the public recognize his skill
and ability.

   Dr. Todd began practice at North Salem, Indiana, in 1864, but soon after went
into the army. In the fall of 1865 he became a resident of Garden Grove, Iowa,
his place of abode until the spring of 1882, when he came to Chariton. His
labors in the line of his profession have continued almost uninterruptedly.
Early in 1865 he became assistant surgeon of the Eleventh Indiana Infantry, in
which he served until the close of the war, and the loyalty which prompted him
to go to his country's aid during those dark days has always been manifest in
his faithful performance of every duty of citizenship which comes to him. His
brother, John O., was a member of the Seventh Indiana Infantry and was
discharged on account of ill health, but afterward re-enlisted in the
Fifty-third Indiana Infantry -General Gresham's regiment. Marshall also served a
three-years term in the Sixty-third Infantry of Indiana.

   The Doctor was married at Eddyville, Iowa, October 3, 1861, to Miss Orpha G.
Tuttle, a native of New Hampshire. She was born March 13, 1839, and when in her
seventeenth year came to Iowa with her parents, the family locating on a farm
near Eddyville. Her father, Oliver Tuttle, during his younger years, married
Fannie Gray, and they are still living in Eddyville. The Doctor and his wife
have two children: Edward Carlton, who was born July 8, 1862, and died January
15, 1864; and Henry Oliver, born June 9, 1867. The latter was educated in the
public school of Garden Grove, Iowa, and in Fairfield, this State; also pursued
the scientific course of study in the Michigan University at Ann Arbor. He now
resides in Omaha, Nebraska, where he is employed as a salesman. He married Miss
Myra A. Surface, of Omaha, and to them were born two children, but Addison
Gaylord died at the age of six months. Gifford Gray is now a babe of six months.

   In his political views Dr. Todd has been a life-long Republican, unfaltering 
in his support of that party. Socially he is connected with Iseminger Post, No. 
18, G. A. R. He is a member of the Iowa State Medical Society and of the Des 
Moines Valley Medical Association, of which he is now serving as president. He 
belongs to Chariton Lodge, A. F. & A. M., and Chariton Lodge, No. 268, A. O.U. W., 
and both he and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church. The Doctor is 
highly esteemed by his professional brethren, holds an enviable position in 
social circles and is a respected and honored gentleman.

Additional Comments:

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A MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF IOWA

ILLUSTRATED

"A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendants."'—MACAULAY.

"Biography is by nature the must universally profitable, universally pleasant,
of all things."—CARLYLE

"History is only biography on a large scale"—LAMARTINE.

CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1896


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