Robert S. Todd Daguerreotype

[Susan Higginbotham]

The Mary Lincoln House posted this today--a daguerreotype of Robert S. Todd from the 1840s. It will be on display there beginning next year.

https://www.facebook.com/mtlhouse/photos...=3&theater

[RJNorton]

Thanks for posting, Susan. I think the only previous image I had seen of him was this painting:

https://images.fineartamerica.com/images...ranger.jpg

[ScholarInTraining]

Very nice!!! Rare!!! And he definitely looks quite a bit like his namesake. :-)

If nobody minds my asking, "what" were the Todds? Irish? French?

[AussieMick]

Presbyterians hints at possibly Northern Irish or Scots ? Very unlikely to be French.
Choosing a name like Robert for a child points to Scots ... and William Wallace ... !!! well, I think you can see a Scots influence there.

According to Wikipaedia ... "Mary's paternal great-grandfather, David Levi Todd, was born in County Longford, Ireland, and immigrated through Pennsylvania to Kentucky. Another great-grandfather, Andrew Porter, was the son of an Irish immigrant to New Hampshire and later Pennsylvania. Her great-great maternal grandfather Samuel McDowell was born in Scotland, and emigrated to Pennsylvania. Other Todd ancestors came from England."