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Robert S. Todd Daguerreotype
12-18-2017, 01:49 PM
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Robert S. Todd Daguerreotype
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.

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12-18-2017, 03:39 PM
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RE: Robert S. Todd Daguerreotype
Thanks for posting, Susan. I think the only previous image I had seen of him was this painting:

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12-19-2017, 12:00 AM
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RE: Robert S. Todd Daguerreotype
Very nice!!! Rare!!! And he definitely looks quite a bit like his namesake. :-)

If nobody minds my asking, "what" were the Todds? Irish? French?
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12-19-2017, 01:53 AM (This post was last modified: 12-19-2017 02:04 AM by AussieMick.)
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RE: Robert S. Todd Daguerreotype
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."
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