Daniel TODD, Doniphan Co., KS, 1883

Subject of the following biographical sketch taken from Cutler's 1883 History of Kansas.

DANIEL TODD, farmer, P. O. White Cloud, came to Kansas, March 28, 1854, locating in Leavenworth, where he lived about two months, and from there removed to near White Cloud, where he lived three months, when he was, with his entire family, consisting of six persons, kidnapped and sold into slavery. They were first taken to Howard County, Mo., where they were held in bondage one year. A short time subsequently Mr. Todd's wife and one child were sent to Macon County, Tenn., where they were held in slavery nearly four years, when they were restored to freedom by President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.
Mr. Todd escaped from those who kidnapped him, at the time his wife and child were taken to Tennessee, and joined the United States army, becoming a member of Company D, First Missouri Militia. He enlisted in September, 1861, in Mexico, Mo., served eighteen months, and was discharged for disability incurred while in the service, in March 1863, at Pilot Knob, Mo. After his discharge from the army, he gathered together those of his children that he could find and removed to White Cloud where he was subsequently joined by his wife and one child, and where he has ever since lived.
He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church in White Cloud. He was born in Washington County, Va., in 1816, and lived there until his twelfth year, when his master removed to Boone County, Mo. Mr. T. lived altogether, twenty-six years in the State of Missouri, and then came to Kansas. He was married in Platte County, Mo., May 20, 1853, to Priscilla Dorsey, a native of Macon Co., Ky. They have four children living - Scott Clay, Sophronia, Lucetta, and Emeline. Also have two grandchildren living with them - George Mason and Charles True.
Though starting late in life and without a dollar, Mr. Todd has now become by hard work and economy the happy owner of eighty acres of fine upland, which is all enclosed, and has about fifty-eight acres under cultivation, the balance being pasture and timber land. His orchard covers two acres, and contains fifty apple, six hundred peach, and fifty cherry and pear trees. His vineyard covers half an acre and has three hundred vines. The improvements on his farm consist of a comfortable frame dwelling house, good barn, and other outbuildings.

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