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• Name: Thomas Milton TODD
• Sex: M
• Birth: 6 Apr 1839 in Virginia ^b
• Death: 15 Sep 1905 in Auburn, California ^d
• Burial: Oakland, California ^u


Parents:

• Father:
  
• James Sawhill TODD Birth: 14 Feb 1809 in Washington Co, Pennsylvania Death: 14 Dec 1893 in West Alexander, Washington Co, Pennsylvania
Mother:

• Mary BYERS Birth: 22 Dec 1819 in West Alexander, Washington Co, Pennsylvania Death: 5 Apr 1908 in West Alexander, Washington Co, Pennsylvania

Family:
Marriage:

• Alice ADRIAN on 25 Sep 1877 .^m1
  
• Alice ADRIAN

Bibliography

Sources for birth and parent Information

date:

[Ref: Eagleson BYERS p16]

age 10 in 1850 [Ref: 1850 VA Ohio 26]

age 21 in 1860 [Ref: 1860 VA Ohio 77]

second child [Ref: SanFranciscoCA History p567],

place:

[Ref: 1850 VA Ohio 26, 1860 VA Ohio 77],

parents:

[Ref: 1850 VA Ohio 26, 1860 VA Ohio 77, Eagleson BYERS p16, TODD Family]

James TODD & Mary Renick RYERS [Ref: SanFranciscoCA History p567],

father:

[Ref: WashingtonCoPA Wills 14-345]

Sources with Inaccurate birth and parent Information

place:

West Alexander, Washington Co, Pennsylvania [Ref: Eagleson BYERS p16]

Sources for death Information

date:

[Ref: AuburgCA PlacerHerald 9/23/1905],

place:

[Ref: AuburgCA PlacerHerald 9/23/1905, Eagleson BYERS p17]

Sources with Inaccurate death Information

date:

15 Sep 1908 [Ref: Eagleson BYERS p17]

Sources for burial Information

place:

[Ref: AuburgCA PlacerHerald 9/23/1905, Eagleson BYERS p17]

Sources with Information about marriage to Alice ADRIAN

date:

[Ref: Eagleson BYERS p17]

Research Notes:
received his education largely at the Academy at his home town [Ref: Eagleson BYERS p17]

Sep 1862: graduated at Washington & Jefferson College, Washington, PA [Ref: Eagleson BYERS p17]

Sep 1862: enlisted the same day in Battery G, Penn. Artillery in the Union Army. [Ref: Eagleson BYERS p17]

served in Civil War, in Young's Pittsburgh Battery [Ref: SanFranciscoCA History p567]

talented musician and teacher and band leader, and for this was presented a fine horn with the following inscription: "Presented to Sergeant T. N. Todd, Battery G, Penn. Vols, by the officers of the Garrison at Forn Delaware." [Ref: Eagleson BYERS p17]

After the war he studied medicine and became a successful practitioner [Ref: Eagleson BYERS p17]

settled in Auburn, Placer Co, California. [Ref: Eagleson BYERS p17]

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Dr. Thomas Milton Todd, son of James and Mary R. (Byers) Todd, was born in Wheeling, West Virginia, April 6, 1839.
He gradyated at Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, Pennsylvania, in 1862, with the degree of A.B. - that of Master of Arts being conferred upon him several years later.
Following his graduation he entered the Union army, in the War of the Rebellion, and lived through those scenes of fratricidal conflict which never have been, and never can be, described by toungue or pen.
After devoting three years of his gallant young manhood to the service of his country, which was only saved through the efforts of men such as he, ,Dr. Todd entered upon the study of his profession, and was graduated at the Miami Medical College, Cincinnati, Ohio, receiving his degree of M.D. in 1868. He took up his residence in Auburn, California, in the spring of 1871, and here he met the beautiful girl who was destined to become his wife, Miss Alise Adrian, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Antone Adrian, whom he married September 25, 1877; a union of singular felicity, which only death could mar or disturb.
Dr. Todd was appointed Physician and Surgeon to the County Hospital of Placer County in 1875, a position he continued to hold to the close of his life. He was a member of the State Medical Society, of the Masonic Fraternity, and of the Knight Templars, and a communicant of the Episcopal Church.
A brief sketch can undertake no study of the noble and self-forgetful life of this beloved physician, who through the long years of a very large practice had endeared himself alike to rich and poor. A generation came and went in Auburn, while he passed in and out among them there; with an ear ever open to the cry of human suffering, a hand quick to relieve, and a clearness of comprehension, and soundness of judgement which few men, even in his own arduous profession, ever achieve.
Dr. Todd found in music his needed rest and refreshment from labor and care. Upon his cherished violin the tale of human suffering became spiritualized, and beneath his skillful touch, Faith, Hope, Love, Patriotism, and all of the other great underlying motives of life, breathed forth their everlasting harmonies.
Only those who have been uplifted and inspired by those impassioned strains can comprehend the breadth and fullness of his warm, rich nature.
In the midst of his usefulness, Dr. Thomas Milton Todd passed peacefully away at his home in Auburn, after a brief illness, September 15, 1905, leaving to lament their loss, his wife, his mother, a sister, Mrs. Emma Todd Moore, and five brothers: William Neely, John Smith, Joseph Stephenson, and Doctors Frank Lester and J. Hamilton Todd.
It was the privilege of Dr. J. Hamilton Todd to attend his beloved brother through his last illness. [Ref: "Dr. Thomas Milton Todd"]

Todd Memorial Booklet Knights Templar:
We, your Committee on Memorial in memory of our deceased Companion, Sir Knight, Thomas Milton Todd, would fraternally report as follows:
The young may die, the old must die, the wisest knoweth not how soon.
The most exalted in Palace or upon Throne, with the most lowly who rests within his humble home; lives beneath the dread shadow of inevitable death.
The immutable law of human life, makes our common heritage, the grave; there to slumber until the all wise, loving Father calls us to a higher and purer life, where death comes not.
Here, amidst living life, there is left only the memories of our deeds and associations, which make the record of our existence; and as we plant along our pathway the beartiful flowers of loving kindness, tender regard and merciful charity, tempered with truth and justice, so shall be the lights and shadows thrown upon the pictures, either in beauty or in somberness, which will color the memories we leave behind us, at the fireside, in fraternal and friendly association, and by our public and private acts in the community, with whomn, and where, our span of this life, has been passed.
Of the earlier life our deceased Companion, Sir Knight Thomas Milton Todd, we know only: That he was born on April 6th, 1839, in Wheeling, West Virginia; was educated and grew to early manhood there and in Pennsylvania surrounded by the loving and elevating influences of the highest and best family surroundings, Christian example and teachings.
That in 1862, at the age of 23 years, he joined the Union Army, and served zealously for three years in support of National Union and the cause of human freedom.
That thereafter he studied and honorably graduated as a physician and surgeon in 1868, and came to live among us in 1871, making his permanent home in Auburn, Placer County, California, where he died.
Soon after coming to his new home, by his intelligence, professional skill and prabity, together with his personal and professional acts of kind and friendly charity, he endeared himself to one and all, as a true friend, a most worthy, exemplary man and citizen.
In 1872, he was made a Master Mason in Eureka Lodge, No. 16, F.&A.M.
In 1881, he was exalted to the sublime degree of Royal Arch Mason, in Delta Chapter, No. 27, R.A.M. and in 1889 he was greeted as a Royal and Select Master.
In 1882, he was Knighted in Nevada Commandery, No. 6, and in all his acts he has proven himself a loway and faithful Christian Knight, true to the principles of our Order, in practice as in profession.
In his Masonic life, his walk was "ever upright before God and man," gauging his conduct by the square of virtue, ever mindful of his fraternal associations, of the principles of brotherly love, relief and truth.
As a physician, he was ever prompt to answer the call of the suffering and needy, regardless of labor, time or compensation. His kindly smile and consoling voice always brought to the bedside of pain and suffering the sunshine of sympathy and relief, and left behind him when gone, the healing influences of renewed hope.
In his public life he was always kind, courteous and considerate of the rights of others, rendering unto every one their just due, unmindful of his personal sacrifice.
In his family life and relations, he was a tender, loving husband and protector; good and true to the best and highest ideals of what constituted a "home" and true happiness.
He was loving and loyal to kindred and friends, and in his social life and relations, the true principles of human affection, truth and justice, tempered with mercy, was the constant guide and regulator of his conduct, while his charity was, in operation, that truly Christian charity that not only ministered to the material wants and miseries of others, but in its beauty and magnimity was truly a mantle "covering a Multitude of Sins" in his fellows.
Death has called him from our midst, and, in his physical manhood, we shall know him no more; but, these are some of the beautiful flowers, and everlasting evergreens, which he planted and has strewn along his pathway in his journey through life among us, and they surround our memory of him and fill his record on this earth with the richest perfume and fragrance, of tender, fraternal and loving recollection of him, and let us fondly hope and believe, that in the redeeming faith of our Order, they will be and remain Eternal.
To the wife and family and friends, we can ony extend our loving sympathy, and ask that, when the last sad mandate of eternal sleep may come to their podies, then may be greet ehem on the other shore, beyond the Valley of Death, with the same loving, friendly and trufhful smile of welcome that knew him here.
RESOLVED:
That this Memorial be spread on the records of the Commandery..
That a suitable copy be sent to the wife and family of our deceased Companion.
That the Commandery be draped in appropriate mourning, in token of our bereavement, for the term of thirty days.
Submitted in sorrow and fraternal love, /s/ John M, Fulweiler,
/s/ D. W. Lubect, /s/ Harold T. Power. [Ref: TODD Memorial Booklet Knights Templar]



Pedigree of Thomas Milton TODD
                            /-----John TODD
                   /-----John TODD
          /-----William TODD
         |        |         /-----James GILLESPIE
         |         \-----Mary Elizabeth GILLESPIE
         |                  \-----Elizabeth RIDDLE
 /-----James Sawhill TODD
|        |         /-----John NEELY
|         \-----Elizabeth NEELY
|                  \-----Elizabeth WIGTON
Thomas Milton TODD
|                                             /-----Thomas BYERS
|                                    /-----James BYERS
|                           /-----Samuel BYERS
|                  /-----Thomas BYERS
|                 |        |         /-----Thomas WHITE
|                 |         \-----Jane WHITE
|                 |                  \-----Ann (WHITE)
|         /-----Thomas BYERS
|        |        |                                             /-----John SHANNON
|        |        |                                    /-----John SHANNON
|        |        |                           /-----Robert SHANNON
|        |        |                  /-----Thomas SHANNON
|        |        |                 |         \-----Annal (SHANNON)
|        |        |         /-----John SHANNON
|        |        |        |         \-----Agnes (SHANNON)
|        |         \-----Margaret SHANNON
|        |                 |                  /-----Thomas REID
|        |                 |         /-----John Col REID
|        |                 |        |         \-----Mary McKEAN
|        |                  \-----Sarah REID
|        |                           \-----Jane STUART
 \-----Mary BYERS
         |         /-----Robert HAMILTON
          \-----Margaret HAMILTON
                   \-----Mary (HAMILTON)



Descendants of Thomas Milton TODD