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CHARLES S. TODD FROM: The History of Gallatin, Saline, Hamilton, Franklin, and Williamson Counties, Illinois (Chicago: Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1887). P. 744-745.
Charles
S. Todd, carpenter, farmer and postmaster at Belle City, was born November
6, 1831, in Stratford, Conn., the youngest of three children (two
deceased) of Edward and, Either Todd, the former born about 1809 in
Redding Conn., of Scotch origin, and the latter a few years later in
Danbury, Conn. They were reared and married in their native State, and
after marriage moved to Stratford, where the mother died when our subject
was an infant. The father, a
coal dealer, came to Madison County Ill., in 1856 and there, at Highland
his second, wife died the next year. He moved to Mount Carmel, Ill.,
married the third time, and engaged in farming until his death, which
occurred in1879. Our subject was educated at Stratford, and when seventeen
was apprenticed to a carpenter in New Haven. When twenty, he began for
himself, and at twenty-two married and settled at Waterbury, where he was
engaged in a cotton-gin factory. In 1855 he came to Highland, Ill., and
purchased a farm, remaining on the same, with the exception of eight
months as army sutler, until 1863, when he went to Belle City. Here he had
an interest in a grist and saw mill for a year. He then worked at his
trade until 1878, when he began farming. In 1880 he purchased his farm
adjoining Belle City, which he superintends, occasionally works at his
trade, is postmaster, notary public and also police magistrate of Belle
City. His wife, Jane M., daughter of Nathan S. and Prudence Fowler (both
living in Connecticut), was
born
in March, 1838, in Branford, Conn. Their children are Arthur E., Edward
A., Charles S., Harry H., Mary A., Benjamin F. (deceased) and As& S.
His farm of 140 acres, a couple of town Iota and his residence are his own
acquirements chiefly, and he its now one of the leading business men of
the county. He is a Republican, and voted for Fremont. He was elected
justice in 1867, and about the same time was appointed postmaster, and
says he is one of the "rascals not |
