Some account of the history of the Tod family and connections . rests in industries, a number ofwhich he assisted in bringing to Youngstown, where heoccupied a prominent position. his chief pleasure in trotting horses, ofwhich he at all times owned a number, the most notedone, perhaps, being Lord Vincent with which he wonthe Charter Oak stake at Hartford in 1903. George Tod was never He residedwith his mother until her death in 1901, when he ac-quired the interests of his brothers and sisters in theBrier Hill Farm. He remodeled the homestead andfixed up the grounds in
Some account of the history of the Tod family and connections . rests in industries, a number ofwhich he assisted in bringing to Youngstown, where heoccupied a prominent position. his chief pleasure in trotting horses, ofwhich he at all times owned a number, the most notedone, perhaps, being Lord Vincent with which he wonthe Charter Oak stake at Hartford in 1903. George Tod was never He residedwith his mother until her death in 1901, when he ac-quired the interests of his brothers and sisters in theBrier Hill Farm. He remodeled the homestead andfixed up the grounds in handsome style, and lived thereuntil his death. Like his brothers, he had unboundedadmiration for his father, and in his will he left BrierHill Farm for a cemetery, with the following words:— I am influenced in dedicating the above describedtract of land to cemetery uses, and in directing thatthe remains of my parents and grand-parents be buriedthere, by the fact that during the life times of my Grand-father and of my Father, this was their home, and it 150. HISTORY OF THE TOD FAMILY seems to me peculiarly fitting that this should be their final resting place; and in view of these facts, I request that the cemetery shall, in honor of mv Grand-father y >il > WILLIAM TOD—1843-1905 WILLIAM TOD, youngest son of David andMaria Smith Tod, was born at Warren, Ohio, July 30»1843, and died at Youngstown, April 27, 1905, his deathbeing due to an affection of the heart. Ke is buriedin Oak Hill Cemetery at Youngstown. When about four years old, he accompanied hisparents to Brazil. The following year he returned tothe United States with his mother who came home toplace his older brothers in school, and again accom-panied his mother and his baby sister Grace to Brazilwhere he remained until the family returned home in1852, and learned to speak the Portuguese Language. After finishing his schooling and being interestedin coal mining for some years, he emibarked in the fo
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