Johnson County KS Archives Biographies.....Todd, J. B. 1848 - 
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Author: Ed Blair (1915)

  J. B. Todd, a pioner [sic] business man of Johnson county, now conducting a
creamery business at Gardner, is a native of New York State. He was born in
Otsego county in 1848, and is a son of Orange and Anna (Daniels) Todd. J. B.
Todd attended the public schools in his native state, and when twenty-one years
old came to Kansas, first locating at Atchison. After attending Baker University
one year, he came to Gardner where he was engaged as clerk in a general
merchandise store for three years. He then bought out the business and conducted
the store for five years when he then sold the stock to Colonel Hayes and
accepted a position as traveling- salesman for an implement and machine company
and was engaged in that business for fourteen years. He then followed farming in
Johnson county about four years and on October 1, 1896, he purchased the
creamery station at Gardner, where he has built up an extensive business. Mr.
Todd manufactures ice cream which is known over a large section of the country
for its excellence; he also has an ice plant and manufactures ice. He buys and
ships large quantities of cream and does a business amounting to thousands of
dollars, annually. He has a branch station at Edgerton which he established in
the spring of 1906 and the business there has greatly exceeded his expectations.
In the spring of 1915, he established another branch creamery station at Spring
Hill. Mr. Todd married Miss Sarah C. Cramer and to this union five children have
been born, as follows: Nellie, Clarence, Andrew, Annie and Nelson. Mr. Todd is a
progressive and public spirited citizen and one of the leading factors in the
hustling business town of Gardner.

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HISTORY OF Johnson County Kansas
BY
ED BLAIR

AUTHOR OF
Kansas Zephyrs, Sunflower Sittings and Other Poems and Sketches

IN ONE VOLUME

ILLUSTRATED
STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
1915


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