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Biographical sketch of GEORGE TODD, M. D. from the book entitled, "Biographical Memoirs of Saint Clair County, Michigan," published in 1903 by B. F. Bowen Publishers in Logansport, Indiana.
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This bio spans two (2) pages: 534-535
GEORGE TODD, M. D.
This well-known and successful physician, now residing and in active practice at Jeddo, was born in Elgin county, Canada, May 25, 1838, and is a son of Francis and Susan (Finch) Todd, the former of whom was a native of Yorkshire, England, and the latter of the state of New York. Francis Todd was reared a farmer, and while yet a single man left his native land to seek his fortune in the new world, and became a prosperous agriculturist in Elgin county, Canada. There, in 1860, he lost his wife whom he survived eight ears, when he, too, passed away in the faith of the Methodist Episcopal church. The children born to Francis and Susan (Finch) Todd numbered seven, and were born in the following order: John, who is now deceased; George, whose name opens this biographical record; Abraham, Milton, Joseph, Mary and Eliza.
Dr. George Todd was primarily educated in the common schools of his native county, and at the early age of fifteen began teaching, a profession he followed for ten years in all. He began to read medicine in 1858, at Aylmer, Ontario, with Dr. E. Price, under whose instruction he continued for three years, though he taught in the meantime. He entered the University of Michigan, where he took a two-years course in the medical department, and from which he graduated with the class of 1865, and immediately began practice at Jeddo. His abilities were soon recognized, and he has since been favored with a large and lucrative practice, and holds today an exalted position in his profession throughout St. Clair county.
Dr. Todd was joined in marriage May 28, 1859, with Miss Sarah Haney, who was born in Norfolk county, Ontario, Canada, and is a daughter of the Rev. Isaac and Sarah (Cottington) Haney, her father formerly a clergyman in the Methodist Episcopal church, as well as a farmer. The Rev. Isaac Haney was born in 1801 and died at the age of seventy-nine years. To Dr. and Mrs. Todd have been born nine children in the following order: Dr. Francis J., who graduated from the university of Ann Arbor in 1883, and is now in active practice in Oakland, California; Ida, who has been a teacher since 1884; Susie A. is the wife of James Moran, a farmer of Jeddo, Michigan, and has three children, Verna, Mabel and Francis Todd; S. Edith, a teacher in Fostoria, Ohio, who commenced the profession in 1886, but has since further qualified herself by study at the State Normal and the University of Chicago; Catherine, a telegraph operator at Detroit; Elizabeth, still at home; Helen L., attending the Cleary Business College at Ypsilanti; George Edward, who died young, and Isaac W., a farmer in Grant township, and married to Lillian Aiken.
Dr. Todd, besides doing a large professional business, is the owner of a farm of seventy-seven and a half acres, known as the Porter farm, and another of eighty acres, on both of which he carried on general farming, in which he is as successful as he is in the practice of medicine. He has but recently retired from the general mercantile business, in which he was engaged for fifteen years, and during which he erected a grain elevator at Jeddo station, and shipped grain for a period of eight years.
He is a member of the State Medical Society, to which he has contributed many valuable papers. He was made a Mason in 1861, and is now a member of Lexington Lodge No. 61. He attends the Methodist Episcopal church, and in politics is a Democrat, under the auspices of which party he has filled the offices of justice of the peace four years, and has been school board clerk and health officer, capably discharging the duties of each office.
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PLEASE NOTE: I do not have any personal interest in researching the TODD surname or the St. Clair county, Michigan location. I am merely posting a select number of the biographical sketches found in the above-referenced book *upon specific written request* as a service to the genealogical community; these transcriptions are intended for personal use and are not being done for profit. Please do not contact me with regard to research interests in the above as I have no personal ties. Thank you.
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