Bulletin of the Geological Society of America . ORIAL OF JAMES E. TODD ^BY FRANK LEVERETT James Edward Todd, one of the charter members of our Society, Avasborn at Clarksfield, Ohio, February 11, 1846. His father. Reverend JohnTodd, a Congregational minister, took up pioneer work in southwesternIowa in 1850. and it was in these pioneer surroundings that the subjectof our sketch grew up. The nearest store was 20 miles away, and thegrist-mill still farther. Hulled corn was long the main diet in his child-hood. Economy and industry were made imperative and habits of easeor indolence were not perm
Bulletin of the Geological Society of America . ORIAL OF JAMES E. TODD ^BY FRANK LEVERETT James Edward Todd, one of the charter members of our Society, Avasborn at Clarksfield, Ohio, February 11, 1846. His father. Reverend JohnTodd, a Congregational minister, took up pioneer work in southwesternIowa in 1850. and it was in these pioneer surroundings that the subjectof our sketch grew up. The nearest store was 20 miles away, and thegrist-mill still farther. Hulled corn was long the main diet in his child-hood. Economy and industry were made imperative and habits of easeor indolence were not permitted. His father was one of the founders ofTabor College, at Tabor, Iowa, and it was there that young Todd receivedhis early education. From there he went to Oberlin College, where hegraduated in 1867. He then attended Union Theological Seminary inXew York, in 1867 to 1869, and returned to Oberlin to obtain the deoree « Op. cit. ^ Manuscript received by the Secretarj- of the Society February 2. 192o. BULL. GEOL. SOC. AM. VOL. 34, 1922, PL. 3. MEMORIAL OF J. E. TODD 45 of Bachelor of Divinit}^ in 1870. During the Civil War he served 100days in 1864 as private in Company K, 150th Ohio Infantry. He wasmarried June 15, 1876, to Miss Lillie Carpenter, of Tabor, Iowa, and issurvived by his widow and three sons. The eldest son. Prof. M. E. Todd,IS an electrical engineer on the faculty of the University of Minnesota,The second son, E. A. Todd, is a chemist employed in oil plants in Okla-homa. The third son, J. E. Todd, is treasurer of Robert College, Con-stantinople, Turkey. Although trained for the ministry. Professor Todd devoted his entirelife to the teaching and investigation of scientific matters. He used hisinfluence in reconciling science and religion, and by his earnest Christianlife, together with his devotion to scientific truth, did much to illustratethe close relation that science and religion have to the true purpose of life. For 21 years, from 1871 to 1892, Professor To
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