Levi Todd
Military Person
1756 – 1807
Who was Levi Todd?
Levi Todd was an 18th-century American pioneer who, with his brothers John and Robert Todd, helped found present-day Lexington, Kentucky and were leading prominent landowners and statesmen in the state of Kentucky prior to its admission into the United States in 1792.
He was also the grandfather of Mary Todd Lincoln, the later wife of President Abraham Lincoln, born to his son Robert S. Todd, a longtime clerk of the Kentucky House of Representatives and later representative of Fayette County. His grandson John T. Stuart, born to his daughter Hannah Todd and noted Presbyterian preacher Rev. Robert Stuart, was a prominent Illinois lawyer and a later partner of Lincoln.
Two of his daughters married politicians, Jane Briggs marrying congressman Daniel Breck and Elizabeth Todd marrying Charles Carr, the son of Kentucky statesman Walter Carr.
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- Born
- Oct 4, 1756
Montgomery County - Siblings
- Spouses
- Jane Holmes
- Jane Briggs
(1779/02/25 - )
- Lived in
- Lexington
- Kentucky
- Died
- Sep 6, 1807
Lexington
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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