Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-08-28

Connecticut, where he died about the
year 1906, leaving large family to the
care and support of a deranged mother
BY the most determined hard work the
subject of this sketch fitted himself for
college, and graduated at Yale in 1929. I
Having selected the ministry for his life |
work, he went through a three years
preparatory course for that profession
at Andover Theological Seminary, and
was ordained and settled as pastor of |
the Congregational church at Groton,
Mass, on the third day of January, 1927.
After pastorate at Groton for six
years, he was settled in Northampton
for three years, when he accepted call |
to Philadelphia, where he remained for
six years. On the 10th of February,
1912, he was installed over the First
Congregational Church, in Pittsfeld, and
here he found permanent home. AS
his fame increased, and his name became
widely known, by means of his books
and other writings, efforts were made by
churches in larger places to secure him,
but he soon became so attached to the
town and his people that he was 10th to
leave, and for many years previo Is to
his death he had regarded his flock in
Pittsfield as peculiarly his own, and the
town itself as his last earthly home.
Even when nearly seventy years of age,
a prominent church in California offered
him large salary to remove to that dis
tant field, but his ready excuse of age
was too powerful to need additional ones.
For more than thirty years he has
preached and labored in Pittsfeld,
becoming identified with the his
tory of the town, especially in its
educational interests, serving on school
committees and examining boards, and
occupying for many years the post of
| President of the Board of Trustees of
| Maplewood Institute. Not only did his
sympathies go out toward the educa-
tional affairs of his own town, but he
was one of the founders of Mount Hol-
yoke Female Seminary, and for many
years before his death he was one of the
Trustees of Williams College, which in
stitution conferred the degree of D. d.
on him in 1915.
Dr. Todd was married March II, 1897,
to Mary S. Brace. daughter of Rev. Or
Brace, of Newington, CT, whom he
leaves with one son and four daughters
they having lost four children. The son.
John F. Todd, formerly of Winterstreet
church, Boston, is now pastor of the
Church of the Redeemer in New Haven.
Three of the daughters are married.
Martha G.. to Rev. Charles J. Hill. Of
Ansonia, CT. Lucy B. to A. NJ. Bigelow,
New York lawyer, and Anna d. tc
Frank X Paddock M. D., of Pittsfeld.
Sarah d., the unmarried daughter, is now
in Europe.
In 1865, DR.. Todd travelled III Europe
and brought home a store of knowledge
gathered from personal experiences, will
which he entertained hispeople on many
= occasions. In 1869 he visited California
and was present in the Salt Lake valley
= when the connecting rails were lai'
which joined the Pacific to the Allan
J, tic, making the prayer on that interest
y ing occasion. On his return home, hi
i California lectures, in one of which h
gave a practical illustration of the diam
= eter of the Yosemite trees by eXhiuitin
in the church pole.thirty or forty fee
long, were among the most powerfr
: discourses he ever delivered, and the
were soon published by Lee & Shepard
- under the title of 1.-The Sunset Land.
e Although DR.. Todd made preachin
% the great labor of his life, his many pull
a lished works show that he was not i'll
=, i'm other directions. In relation to I'll
- influence he has had it in his power
!, exert by means of his books, an cminel
y authority says: ''Few works by Anne
,r lean authors have had so wide circu
- ton as some of those written by ID
q Todd" The list of bound volumes
had published numbers over thirty ar
70 nearly all were reprinted in Englan'
Among the best known of his best bool
n are Lectures to Children, two volume
r which has been translated into Frenc
o German, Greek, Dutch and Tamil, al
w several times reprinted in England
~ 'sThe Students Manual" of which lot
y y 900 copies had been sold in England
- 1855, and two translations had be-
: made in France; "The Sabbath SchO
Teacher; - ''The Lost Sister of WyoI
=; ing :" ''The Bible Companion )" ''Gre
. Cities,-Their Moral Influence, etc
=! 'The Young Man :" "Simple Sketches
-, =" ''The Daughter at School," "Summ
Gleanings :" ''Truth Made Simple
=. % "Stories on the Shorter Catechisn
~ 'sThe Angel of the Iceberg" Ind
eo Rerum :" "Patriarchs, etc. "Mou
l n tain Flo xers," and ''The Faithful She
oy herd.
~ DIR. Todd was well known in this tow
0n He always looked back with pride
III the grand old mountains which ov
W Swallowed the cradle of his early Chi
lG ~: hood, and when, few years ago,
~. native town celebrated the hundred
wear of her settlement, DR.. Todd
present. an honored guest, and preacl
ret. the centennial sermon. He has gone
ven rest after having performed the fai
ife- fuI services of a long life, honored 6
,,.- respected by ALL His work on earth
iu' done. and with the sanction OF an
aey proying conscience he goes TO rece
!, if the welcome plaudit, "Well done, g
leir and faithful servant.
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