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Rh when he took his seat as a delegate to congress, having been chosen as a Democrat. He served in the civil war as brigadier-general of volunteers from 19 Sept., 1861, till 17 July, 1802, and was in command of the North Missouri district from 15 Oct. to 1 Dec, 1861. He was again a delegate in congress in 1863-5, was elected speaker of the house of representatives of Dakota in 1867, and was governor of the territory in 1869-'71.

TODD, Thomas, jurist, b. in King and Queen county, Va., 23 Jan., 1765 ; d. in Frankfort, Ky., 7 Feb., 1826. His father died when he was an in- fant, and he had some difficulty in obtaining an education. He abandoned his studies to serve in the army in the latter part of the Revolution, and entered the Manchester troop of cavalry during the invasion of Virginia by Arnold and Phillips. In 1786 he was tutor in the family of a cousin in Danville, Ky., studying law at night. He began the practice of his profession toward the end of the year, took part in the agitation that had for its ob- ject the admission of Kentucky as a state, and was appointed clerk of all the conventions that preceded that event. He was made clerk of the U. S. court for the district of Kentucky, and when it became a state in 1799 he was appointed clerk of the court of appeals. He was made fourth judge of the same court in 1801, and chief justice in 1806. He was appointed an associate of the U. S. supreme court on 7 Feb., 1826. While he was an appellate judge of Kentucky he gave great atten- tion to its peculiar system of land laws, originally an act of the assembly of Virginia, and his labors, both in the state court and the supreme court, were instrumental in establishing them on principles of law and equity. — His son, Charles Scott, soldier, b. near Danville, Ky., 22 Jan., 1791 ; d. in Baton Rouge, La., 14 May, 1871, was graduated at Will- iam and Mary, Va., in 1809, began the study of law under his father, and afterward attended lec- tures at Litchfield, Conn. He opened a law-office in Lexington in 1811, but volunteered in June, 1812, for military service. In December he be- came division judge -advocate of the Kentucky troops, and in this capacity was sent by Gen. Will- iam Henry Harrison with private instructions to Gen. James Winchester. On his return to Ken- tucky he was recommended for a captaincy in the regular army by Gen. Harrison, and was appointed to a vacancy in the 17th regiment of infantry in May. 1813. He was soon afterward transferred to the 28th infantry, and appointed aide to Gen. Har- rison. He was mentioned in the report of the campaign of 1813 as one of the four aides that had rendered Harrison "the most important services from the opening of the campaign." He was made deputy inspector of the 8th military district on 1 Nov., 1813, and he also acted as adjutant-general in the summer of 1814 under Gen. Duncan McArthur, who in his report of the expedition into Canada attributed much of its fortunate issue " to the mili- tary talents, activity, and intelligence of Major Todd." He was appointed inspector-general on 2 March, 1815, with the rank of colonel, but resigned in June, and opened a law-office in Frankfort, Ky. He was appointed secretary of state by Gov. Madi- son in 1817, but resigned and sat in the legislature in 1817-'18. In 1820 he was sent on a confidential mission to the republic of Colombia. He returned to the United States in 1821. but resumed his du- ties in South America in 1822, taking with him the recognition of its independence by his government. Declining several offices, he retired for a time to his farm in Shelby county. He was a delegate to the Presbyterian general assembly at Philadelphia in 1837-'8, and for several years vice-president of the State agricultural society. He was a friend of Henry Clay, and sustained his claims to the presi- dency, but on his withdrawal as a candidate in 1835 he supported Harrison : and in 1840, on the invitations of the states of Ohio and Kentucky, he prepared, in conjunction with Benjamin Drake, of Cincinnati, a sketch of his civil and military career (Cincinnati, 1840). To support Harrison's candi- dature he soon afterward took charge of the " Cin- cinnati Republican." His relations with Harrison, who designed him for the mission to Vienna, were confidential. He was sent as U. S. minister to Russia by President Tyler, and reached St. Peters- burg in November, 1841. He was popular with the court and people, and was elected a member of the Imperial agricultural society, from which for- eigners had heretofore been carefully excluded.

TOEBBE, Augustus Mary, R. C. bishop, b. in Meppen. Hanover, 17 Jan., 1829 ; d. in Covington, Ky., 2 May, 1884. He was educated in the gym- nasium of Meppen, and, after completing his col- legiate course, was for several years engaged in mercantile pursuits. He emigrated to the United States in 1851, entered the theological seminary of Mount St. Mary's, Cincinnati, in 1852, was or- dained priest in 1854, and in the following year became pastor successively at New Richmond and Cumminsville, Ohio. He was appointed in 1857 assistant pastor of St. Philomena's church, Cin- cinnati, and in 1865 pastor. In 1866 he was a member of the council of theologians in Baltimore to prepare matters for discussion in the second ple- nary council. He was consecrated bishop of Cov- ington, 9 Jan., 1870. Bishop Toebbe found the finances of his diocese in a state of disorder, but he showed great administrative ability, and gradu- ally raised the debt that had been contracted dur- ing the episcopate of his predecessor. He intro- duced the Sisters of the Good Shepherd and the Sisters of Notre Dame. His death was owing to an ailment that he contracted while he was engaged in ministerial labors among the workingmen on the Cincinnati Southern railroad. During his episco- pate the number of churches increased from thirty- eight to fifty-two, and the priests from thirty- three to fifty-five. He founded several parochial schools, which were attended by 6,225 children at the time of his death.

TOICT, Nicolas (twat), clergyman, b. in Lille, France, in 1611 ; d. in Paraguay in 1680. He is called Del Techo by Spanish writers on the latter country. He became a Jesuit in 1630, went to Paraguay in 1649, and, on account of his zeal and ability, was made superior of the Jesuits in that province. He wrote " Nicolai del Techo Societatis Jesu Historia Provincial Paraguaria?" and " Re- latio Triplex de Rebus Indicis" (Antwerp, 1654).

TOLEDO, Antonio Sehastian de (to-lay -do), Marquis de Mancera, viceroy of Mexico. He was a grandee of Spain and chamberlain to the queen, and had been ambassador in Venice and Germany, when in 1664 he was appointed viceroy of Mexico, and took possession of the government on 15 Oct. of that year. In the following year St. Augustine, of Florida, then depending from the viceroyalty of Mexico, was sacked by buccaneers and the depredations of Sir Henrv Morgan on the Spanish colonies began, and Toledo hastened to send means to Florida for providing fortifications and to re-enforce the fleet. He sent two expeditions to California, but did not obtain any noteworthy results. In 1667 some English privateers presented themselves in front of Vera Cruz, but, finding strong fortifications, entered Alvarado river and com-