Dr.William G. Todd

Dr. William G. Todd

 
       From the 1855 Illinois State Ceneus
Name - William Todd
Aged - 30-40 Years
Militia - Yes
Home in 1855 - Elgin, Kane Co., Ill.

   Listed in the 1857 Elgin Directory as a Planning Mill worker living on Broadway.

       From the Elgin Reserved Militia Rolls

1862 Elgin Class II Reserve Militia

   Signed the roll July 7, 1862.

   Elgin Registered Voter in 1866.

   Member Elgin GAR Post #260.

       From the 1870 Census
Name - William Todd
Aged - 45 Years
Born - Vermont
Home in 1870 - Elgin, Kane Co., Ill.

       Article: April 28, 1877 issue The Elgin Daily News.
   Dr. Wm. G. Todd, the weather reporter, is going to revolutionize the steam engine buisness by a rotary cylinder attached to a balance or driving wheel.  Patent applied for.  See model working in Cheese Box Factory, old west side distillery.  His sixteen-year old son was the inventor, and the father the perfecter.

   Member of the Elgin Scientific & Historical Society in 1880.

Used with permission Elgin Area Hist. Soc.

Used with permission Elgin Area Hist. Soc.

Militia forms filed for Elgin in 1862.