James Madison Todd

Birth Date

1817-07-28

Death Date

1897-03-27

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Frankfort, Kentucky, postmaster, grocer, and commissioner. Kentucky native. Son of Thomas Todd and Lucy Ann Payne Washington Todd. Married to Alisonia Bibb Rennick Todd. Father of Alexander B. Todd, Lucy P. Todd, Thomas A. Todd, William J. Todd, Letty L. Todd, Anna S. Todd, Alisonia Todd, and James M. Todd, Jr. Postmaster in Vanceburg, Kentucky, from 1845 to 1850. Postmaster of Frankfort from 1850 to 1853. Grocer in Frankfort in 1860. Owned six enslaved persons in Frankfort in 1860. Commissioner of the Kentucky Institute for the Feeble Minded in 1864.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 80. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedule, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 19. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 8. Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971, NARA Microfilm Publication, M841, Records of the Post Office Department, Record Group Number 28, p. 613 and 654, (accessed via Ancestry.com). The Kentucky Advocate (Danville, Ky.), March 29, 1897, p. 2. "James Madison Todd, the Fourth," The Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), July 30, 1899, p. 12. Find A Grave, "James M. Todd (1817-1897)," Memorial #61964239, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/61964239 (accessed March 29, 2017).

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