Harry Innes Todd, Sr.

Birth Date

c1818

Death Date

1891-05

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Frankfort, Kentucky, merchant, sheriff, and penitentiary keeper. Kentucky native. Married to Jane B. Todd. Father of Harriet D. Todd, Ann Innes Todd, John H. Todd, Chapman C. Todd, Harry Innes Todd, Jr., Julia R. Todd, Maria Todd, George Todd, Jennie L. Todd, Mary H. Todd, Kitty Todd, and Crittenden Todd. Merchant in Franklin County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned seven enslaved persons in Franklin County in 1850. Merchant in Franklin County in 1860. Sheriff of Franklin County from 1860 to 1861. Owned five enslaved persons in Franklin County in 1860. Keeper of the Kentucky State Penitentiary from 1863 to 1871.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 2, p. 56A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 2, p. 885.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 103.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 501A.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 140B.
William E. Railey, History of Woodford County, Kentucky (1938; Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company for Clearfield Company, 2002), p. 389.
Legislative Document No. 18: Report of the Special Committee on the Penitentiary to the Senate of Kentucky, February 26, 1880 (Frankfort, KY: E. H. Porter, 1880), p. 46.
“Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861,” in 1862 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 99.
“Todd, Harry Innes, 1818-1891,” Social Networks and Archival Context, http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/ark:/99166/w6z03wcb (accessed January 11, 2017).
KYR-0001-004-0177.

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