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Robert S. Todd Daguerreotype - Susan Higginbotham - 12-18-2017 12:49 PM
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/a.1670093449886899.1073741826.1670093349886909/2029039813992259/?type=3&theater
RE: Robert S. Todd Daguerreotype - RJNorton - 12-18-2017 02:39 PM
Thanks for posting, Susan. I think the only previous image I had seen of him was this painting:
https://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large-5/robert-smith-todd-1791-1849-granger.jpg
RE: Robert S. Todd Daguerreotype - ScholarInTraining - 12-18-2017 11:00 PM
Very nice!!! Rare!!! And he definitely looks quite a bit like his namesake. :-)
If nobody minds my asking, "what" were the Todds? Irish? French?
RE: Robert S. Todd Daguerreotype - AussieMick - 12-19-2017 12:53 AM
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."