The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-08-26
GLOBE TUESDAY MORNING AUGUST 26 1873

that "chlld" was the Rev. John Todd, D.
d., who died at PittsGeld. Massachusetts,
Sunday morning. With all his eccentrici.
ties, Timothy Todd was patriot and q
man of mark in his day. He represented
Arlington in the general assembly of Ver-
mont for at least five years, was Judge OF
probate, and, for three years, a member of
the governors council. In the extract
quoted, DIR. Todd says that "hc was car
ried away in the arms Of his father, while
an infant" probably to East Gullford, Con-
necticut, as we have before us ian Grafton
delivered at East Guilford, in Connecticut,
the fourth day of July, 1901, on the ami
versary of the American independence, by
Timothy Todd and which, as the title
page informs us, was published at the re-
quest of n numerous and respectable circle
of acquaintance, In Connecticut and Ver-
mont" At Guilford, he soon thereafter
died, leaving his son John au orphan, to
"ba,tlc with poverty and difficulties. "
How well he " battled with poverty and
difficulties" and overcamc them all, IL cv
denced Ivy the fact that he supported him
self, gained a common school education,
and prepared himself for college, entering
Yale where he graduated among the fore
most of his class, in 1922, when but trihc
over twcnty-onc years of age. His class
contained many men who, afterwards, be-
came eminent as scholars, diyines, states
men and jurists, but we will mention the
name of only one, and his on account of
local associations connected herewith in
Vermont We refer to Jonathan Dorr
Bradley, son of William Gar Bradley and
grandson Of Stephen II. Bradley: all three
men have made their mark on the history
and jurisprudence Of Vermont, and whose
names and fame are familiar as household
words to every dweler within our borders.
From here he entered the Andovcr Theolo-
gical Seminary, graduating there in 1926,
with Walter Cotton. who was. also. born in
Rutland, and in the house directly opposite
andacrOsS the street from that in which he.
himself, was born.
At this time, the controversy which. for
II season, ragged with such terrible violence
throughout the Congregational churches of
New England-but more particularly in
Massachusetts-w at its hight. 1t was
feared by many great and good men that
the church and cause of religion would re-
cciyc an irrcparablc injury from the strife,
and the church must go down in gloom,
but God ordered it otherwise. 1t is not
necessary for our purpose TO say further,
in reference TO tins controversy, than that
a large and powerful church in Groton,
Massachusetts. had been rent in twain, and
from the fragments two churches had been
organized both feeble and struggling. To
the pastoratc of one of thcse-which would
then have been called the Trintarian
church young Todd was called, and was
ordained and installed in January 1927.
The church then consisted of only thirty
members but when he was dismissed. at
his own request, six years later, he had
added over one hundred and thirty 10 its
membership. We need not follow him
through his pastorates at northampton.
Philadelphia, and finally, Tor thirty years,
at Pittsfield. His work was of that kind
which falls to the lot of every faithful pas
tor, the full results of which can only be
ascertaincd in the uncertain hereafter. His
writings were yoluminous, and the bare
mention of their titles would occupy more
space than we could spare. lie was an
easy, graceful writer, and all Of the efforts
of his pen had u charm and fascination all
their own, which unclaimed the attention
of the reader and fixed the ideas and les
sons, he intended to convey, forever in the
mind. In all this he had but one object,
the education of the youth Of the world,
and the lettering Of their mental, moral
and spiritual condition. In this we
think he was cminently successful, and he
lived long enough to see some Of the fruits
of his labors. Would that every ''man
child born in our village" could live such Il
life. and. dying, lcayc such a record