Hon. John Tod and Mary Read Hanna

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Husband Hon. John Tod ^{1 2}

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           Born: Nov 1779 - Suffield, Hartford Co, CT 1
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           Died: 27 Mar 1830 - Bedford, Bedford Co, PA 3
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         Father: David Tod (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Rachel Kent (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 29 Apr 1817 2

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Wife Mary Read Hanna ^{1 2 4}

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           Born: 20 Apr 1788 2
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           Died: 14 Mar 1826 2
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         Father: Gen. John Andre Hanna (1761-1805) 2 4 5
         Mother: Mary Read Harris (1770-1851) 2 4 6

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Children

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1 F Julia Ann Tod ³

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            AKA: Juliann Tod,7 Julia Ann Todd 1
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         Spouse: John Hanna Briggs (1815-1872) 1 7

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2 F Rachel Tod ³

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            AKA: [Unk] Todd 8
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         Spouse: Judge Samuel Anderson Gilmore (1806/1808-1873) 3 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

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3 F Isabella Tod ³

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         Spouse: William M. Kerr (      -Bef 1896) 3

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4 F Henrietta Tod ³

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General Notes: Husband - Hon. John Tod

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He received his preliminary education at the public schools of Suffield, Connecticut, but his classical education was pursued under the direction of the Rev. Mr. Gray, pastor of the Presbyterian church of that town. His rapid progress in his studies enabled him on examination to enter the junior class at Yale College, where he graduated two years afterwards with great credit and honor to himself. After graduating he entered the office of his brother, George Tod, then a practicing lawyer in New Haven, and may have also spent a short time in the office of Gideon Granger, Postmaster General under President Adams. He was admitted to the bar of Hartford in 1800. Shortly after he went to Virginia, where he filled the position of tutor in a family in one of the southern counties of that State. In 1802 he located at Bedford, Pennsylvania, where he did some clerical labor in the prothonotary's office, and the same year admitted to the bar there. His practice rapidly increased, and such was his standing and popularity in the county that he was elected to the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1808, serving in that branch until 1813-the last two sessions being speaker of that body. In 1813 he was elected member of the State Senate, of which he served as presiding officer from 1814 to 1816. He was re-elected in 1816, but resigned the office December 20, 1816. In 1820 he was elected a member of Congress, and again in 1822. The tariff question was the leading measure of Congress during the session of 1823-4. His speeches on the subject-particularly his opening speech, delivered on the 10th of February, 1824, and that with which he closed the debate on the 8th of April-are remarkable; the first for the data, facts, statistics and other important information it conveys-the second for its powerful and persuasive reasoning, fervid eloquence, wit and satire, all expressed in chaste and elegant language. Few subjects have elicited more masterly and brilliant displays from American statesmen. On the 8th of June, 1824, he was appointed president judge of the Fifteenth judicial district, and thereupon resigned his seat in Congress. In May, 1827, he was appointed by Governor Shulze a justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. He had been engaged with two other judges in holding a court at Lancaster, and becoming ill, hastened to his home at Bedford, where, after a brief illness, he breathed his last. The character of Judge Tod was that of a plain, practical Republican-a downright honest man. Without the least ostentation or disguise he remarkably exemplified, in a Spartan simplicity of manners, the truth of his own sentiments-that there may be a social equality in the intercourse of men on all proper occasions without at all interfering with the difference conferred by intellect and education. He was too humble to think himself wiser than others, and too honest to account himself better.

1 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 84.

2 Charles A. Hanna, Ohio Valley Genealogies (New York, 1900), Pg 53.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 85.

4 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 501.

5 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 80, 189.

6 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 80.

7 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 469.

8 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 246.

9 Franklin Ellis, History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 146.

10 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1912), Pg 465.

11 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 55, 64.

12 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 153.

13 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 248.

14 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 756.

15 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 408.