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• Name: Frank Lester Dr TODD
• Sex: M
• Birth: 17 May 1861 in Virginia ^b
• Death: 17 Apr 1936 in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania ^d
• Burial: 20 Apr 1936 in West Alexander Cemetery, West Alexander, Pennsylvania ^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:

• Ida KLEBER .^m1
  
• Ida KLEBER Birth: Abt 1858 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Death: 25 Jul 1946 in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

Bibliography

Sources for birth and parent Information

date:

[Ref: OhioCoWV Births 1-126]

10 May 1861 [Ref: Eagleson BYERS p18]

19 in 1880 [Ref: 1880 WV Ohio Tridelphia ED215 35]

age 37 in Aug 1898 [Ref: Frank Todd 3/20/1935]

age 9 in 1870 [Ref: 1870 WV Ohio Tridelphia 35]

twelfth child [Ref: SanFranciscoCA History p567],

place:

[Ref: 1870 WV Ohio Tridelphia 35, OhioCoWV Births 1-126]

West Virginia [Ref: 1880 WV Ohio Tridelphia ED215 35],

parents:

[Ref: 1870 WV Ohio Tridelphia 35, 1880 WV Ohio Tridelphia ED215 35, Eagleson BYERS p18, OhioCoWV Births 1-126, TODD Family]

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

father:

[Ref: WashingtonCoPA Wills 14-345],

brother:

William N TODD [Ref: WashingtonPA Observer 12/7/1926]

Sources for death Information

date:

[Ref: WashingtonCoPA WAlecCem p110]

Apr 1936 [Ref: Funeral address of Dr. Macartney],

place:

[Ref: Eagleson BYERS p18]

Sources with Inaccurate death Information

place:

Myrtle Beach South Carolina [Ref: WashingtonCoPA WAlecCem p110]

Sources for burial Information

date:

[Ref: WashingtonCoPA WAlecCem p110],

place:

[Ref: WashingtonCoPA WAlecCem p110]

Sources with Information about marriage to Ida KLEBER

names:

[Ref: Betsy Hoffman 2/23/2003, Eagleson BYERS p18, MarshallMM MARSHALL]

Research Notes:
graduated at Washington & Jefferson College, Washington, PA. Taught school in Oakland CA 1886-7, and at Trinity Hall, Washington, PA 1888. Graduated in medicine, 1891. post-graduate course in Berlin, Germany, 1897. [Ref: Eagleson BYERS p18]

cause of death: pneumonia. Buried in plot B-6 [Ref: WashingtonCoPA WAlecCem p110]

Excerpts of Funeral address of Dr. Macartney:
"The beloved physician." That is the beautiful encomium with which St. Paul hands down to immortality the name of his friend, companion, fellow traveller, and physician, St. Luke - Luke the beloved physician.
There are not a few to whom this beautiful phrase will come to mind when they think of our friend, Dr. Todd. A great company of those to whom he was their physician will so speak of him and so remember him; and a still larger company of those with whom he had no professional relationship, will think of him as the physician who was beloved.
Here on a farm, not far from this village, the earthly life of Dr. Todd commenced, on ____, and here in the church of his ancestors it comes to a close. Dr. Todd came of a godly, industrious, intelligent, self-respecting line. "Men do not gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles". His father, James Todd, became a ruling elder in this church in 1857. His mother, Mary Byers, was a descendant of the first minister of this church, Dr. Brice. How often I have heard Dr. Todd, who had such a clear memory of the past, relate his delightful reminscences of this place, and the home where he was born, and the farm where he was brought up; the sheep, cattle, horses, the winter's snow, the harvest and the reaping. He would speak, too, of the family altar and of the prayers which his godly father offered for the welfare and happiness of his children.
Dr. Todd was one of a family of twelve children, seven sons and five daughters, all of whom lived useful, honorable lives, and some of whome rose to distinction. Four of the sons became ruling elders in the Presbyterian Church, and three of them were practicing physicians; a tradition which is maintained in the family, for a nephew of Dr. Todd, Dr. ___ Todd, now conducts a hospital in Canton, China.
Dr. Todd's family was one of marked musical talend, and the boys of the family constituted a band which was known as "Todd's Band", and which played at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876. Dr. Todd's father taught his sons to love their country, and two of them fought for the Union on the battlefields of the Civil War.
Dr. Todd had the advantage of hearing the Word of God in this church from a minister of piety and distinction, the Rev. Dr. William DeHaven Lester. Dr. Lester baptized Dr. Todd as a child into the Christian faith, received him into the church, and prepared him for college in the old West Alexander Academy. Dr. Todd bore the name of this minister, Frank Lester Todd.
In 1885 Dr. Todd graduated from Washington & Jefferson College. He taught for a time in Trinity Hall, a Preparatory School on the outskirts of Washington, and then went to San Francisco, where he was a tutor in the family of the late United States Senator from California, Mr. Whitney. Not long ago, Dr. Todd showed me a letter from one of the daughters whom he had instructed, and who expressed gratitude, admiration and affection for the tutor of her youth.
In 18__ Dr. Todd entered the West Penn Medical College in Pittsburgh, and was graduated in 1890. After his graduation he was for a year an intern at the West Penn Hospital, one of the first class of interns to serve in that Hospital. He then entered upon the practice of his profession in Allegheny, and for forty-five years was a skillful, kind, honorable and faithful physician. Many families in Pittsburgh today, some of whom are present this afternoon, rise up to call Dr. Todd blessed.
Now the life of this good and useful man has, for this world, come to a close. There is no accasion for regret or sadness.
"Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail
Or knock the breast; no weakness no contempt,
Dispraise or blame; nothing but well and fair,
And what may quiet us in a death so noble." -Milton
Here, then, in this church of his ancestors, where he first confessed his faith in Christ, we bid farewell to him. We leave him in the arms of that Compassionate Saviour, in Whom he put his trust, and Who he followed through the pilgrimage of this life. May God accept him, and may Christ, Who died for sinners, receive him. [Ref: Funeral address of Dr. Macartney]



Pedigree of Frank Lester Dr TODD
                            /-----John TODD
                   /-----John TODD
          /-----William TODD
         |        |         /-----James GILLESPIE
         |         \-----Mary Elizabeth GILLESPIE
         |                  \-----Elizabeth RIDDLE
 /-----James Sawhill TODD
|        |         /-----John NEELY
|         \-----Elizabeth NEELY
|                  \-----Elizabeth WIGTON
Frank Lester Dr 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 Frank Lester Dr TODD