U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: --------------------------------------------------------------------- Todd, Archibald Stevenson (1798-1883) --------------------------------------------------------------------- American Medical Biographies (1920) by Howard A. Kelly and Walter L. Burrage Page 1149 Archibald Stevenson Todd, physician and botanist, one of a family of five physicians, was born April 10, 1798, the son of John Todd, an officer in the American Revolution, and Jane Caldwell. His grandfather was a physician, who came from the north of Ireland, and settled in Washington County, New York, in pre-Revolutionary days. His brother, Martin Luther Todd, also a physician, instructed him in medicine, and he graduated M. D. at the Transylvania University in 1824. He was a founder of the West Virginia State Medical Association in 1867 and its president; a founder of the Wheeling and Ohio County Medical Society in 1868; and organizer of the first Wheeling dispensary and vaccine institution, in 1845. Dr. Todd's interests were far-reaching and included botany, mineralogy and astronomy. As a botanist and mineralogist he was looked upon as a leader in western Virginia, and was the author of a book on botany entitled "Wild Flora of West Virginia"; his "Astronomical Observations" appeared in some of the leading magazines. For half a century he was identified with all that was concerned with the prosperity and good name of Wheeling. He was an earnest, active Christian and an elder in the Presbyterian Church. His wife was Mary E. Jarrett, of Morgantown, West Virginia; they had one son, Martin Luther, who became a minister, and four daughters, one of whom, Carolene Louise, married John Cox Hupp, M. D. Frank LeMoyne Hupp. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Additional Information: --------------------------------------------------------------------- DEATH REGISTER, Ohio County WV 1883, Page 28, Line 428 Todd, A. S., Dr died May 1, 1883 at age 82 in Wheeling DEATH REGISTER, Ohio County WV 1896, Page 344 Mary E. Todd (widow) died Dec 26, 1896 at age 86 Parents: William & Mary J. Jarrett ---------------------------------------------------------------------