JEREMIAH E. TODD
Jeremiah E. Todd was born June 6, 1847, in Hancock county, Ohio. He is a son of George and Rachel (Needles) Todd, natives of Ohio. He lived in his native State until November, 1864, when he enlisted as a recruit in company A, of the Twenty-first Ohio Infantry, and served six months. He was mustered into service at Columbus, Ohio, and out at the same place. He returned home in good health and resumed farming. In 1866 he came to Iowa, and settled on a farm in Linn county, with his uncle, George Needles. He remained there one year, and then returned to Ohio, but soon after came back to Linn county. He was married July 5, 1869, to Martha Chessman, of that county, but a native of Indiana, and daughter of John Chessman, who died April 19, 1883. They remained in Linn county till 1877, when he came to Cass county and bought forty acres of land in Atlantic township. He kept this land until 1883, then sold it and purchased eighty acres of unimproved land in the southwest quarter of section 5, Union township, where he now resides. His farm is now all under cultivation and well-improved. It is well watered by a creek which crosses the south side, and a branch, running through the east side of the farm. He is engaged in general farming, and in addition to this, runs a threshing machine during the fall season, with which he does a good business. Mr. Todd started in life poor, but by industry and perseverance, has already accumulated a comfortable property. Mr. and Mrs. Todd have two children---Edna May, born May 23, 1871, and Sarah Ellen, born May 6, 1884.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pp. 739-740.
