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HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY.
died in 1890, and his widow in 1892. Walker Thompson, as he was familiarly known, was reared on the (arm, and attended the local schools. In 1862 he enlisted in the One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and served throughout the Civil War as part of the Army of the Tennessee, participating in all its historic battles, and being mustered out in August, 1865, after more than three years of active military service. Returning to his home in Sugar Grove Township, he resumed his farming career, and has resided there to the present time. He has served two terms as Tax Collector of Sugar Grove Township, and is well regarded in the community where his useful life is passing. He belongs to Aurora Post, No. 20, G. A. R., where his creditable military record gives him a good standing. Mr. Thompson was married in 1883 to Miss Lillian B., daughter of Benjamin Ward, of Aurora. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Thompson are Glynn F., and Hazel A. The living representatives of the Thompson family at this time (1904) are Joseph W.; Edward, of Sandwich, Ill.; Mrs. Jane (Thompson) Taylor, of Hinckley, Ill.; and Mrs. Eliza (Thompson) Price, of Woodstock, Ill.
CHARLES P. TODD, retired farmer and stock-dealer, Dundee, Ill.; born in Tompkins County, N. Y., Aug. 14, 1848; came west with his parents in 1854, who located on a 100-acre farm east of Dundee, in 1865; purchased his father's farm in 1877, but since 1900 has lived retired in the village. Mr. Todd was married in January, 1869, to Miss Elizabeth Burns, of New York.
LEVI TODD (deceased), pioneer, was born in Mt. Holly, Vt., in 1815, where he grew to manhood and was given a common school education. In 1854 he removed to Illinois, and made his home in Sugar Grove Township, Kane County, where he secured land and was engaged in farming until 1868. During that year he retired from farming and settled in the city of Aurora, where he spent his remaining years, being long engaged in the agricultural implement trade. Some years before his death he gave up all active business cares, and enjoyed that rest and peace that should attend the closing of a well-spent and useful life. His death occurred April 10, 1891. In 1836 Mr. Torld married Miss Rachel Walker Gibson, who was born in Shrewsbury, Vt., in 1818, and died in Aurora, Jan. 13, 1874. Their children were Mrs. Olivia (Todd) White, Lucius Merrill, Eleazer, Laura R., Emma J., George Henry, Mary A., and Elmer E. Lucius M., Eleazer and Laura R. are deceased. The others still reside in Aurora.
LUCIUS M. TODD (deceased), lumber merchant, Aurora, Kane County, Ill.; born at East Wallingford, Vt., April 6, 1839, son of Levi and Rachel (Gibson) Todd, and obtained his education in the public schools of Vermont and Kane County, Ill., his parents having removed to the latter place in 1854. In boyhood he was trained to farming, but later removed to Aurora, where he purchased a half-interest in the lumber business of Loomis & White, the firm then becoming White & Todd, and so continued until Mr. Todd's death, which occurred Feb. 16, 1899. After Mr. Todd's death his interest in the business was purchased by Mrs. O. T. White, his sister and the widow of his former partner. Mr. Todd was married in 1860 to Miss Mary Bruce of Ithaca, N. Y., who died in Aurora in 1892.
RENEL TODD (deceased), farmer, Dundee, Ill.; born in Tompkins County, N. Y., Aug. 6, 1818; came west in 1854, first locating on a farm in Barrington Township, Cook County, Ill.; removed to Kane County in 1865, and settled on a farm east of Dundee, where he remained until 1877. Retiring from active farm life in the latter year, he removed to the village of Dundee, where he died Jan. 16, 1885. Mr. Todd was married in 1843 to Miss Gertrude Brokaw.
ROBERT TODD, pioneer settler, Dundee, Ill.; born near Courtbridge (eight miles from Glasgow), Scotland, Feb. 1, 1821; came to the United States in 1835, locating first in Chicago, where he was employed on the old Illinois and Michigan Canal; came to Kane County with his father in 1836, and they located on a tract of Government land about four miles northwest of Dundee. Here Robert Todd resided until 1903, when he removed to his present home in the village of Dundee. He was married in 1848 to Grace Crichton, born in Glasgow, Scotland, daughter of John Crichton, and is the only survivor of a family of five sons and four daughters, all of whom were early settlers in the
