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a member of the Astronomische Gesellschaft of Germany, the Society of Arts of London and of other American and foreign scientific societies, and received the imperial Saki cup from the Mikado of Japan in 1897. A lecturer of note, he is also author of : A Continuation of De Damoi- seau's Tables of the Satellites of Jupiter to the Year 1900 (1876) ; A New Astronomy {1897} ; Stars and Telescopes (1899) ; Nepszeril Csillagdszat (1901), popular astronomy in Hungarian ; impor- tant articles in the Xation, the Century ^nd other leading periodicals, as well as government reports and contributions to the Transactions of various societies.

TODD, Henry Davis, naval officer, was born in Cambridge, Mass., Aug. 25, 1838 ; son of John Neatby and Julia (Parsons) Todd ; grandson of James and Alice (Poultney) Todd and of Judge Benjamin and Julia (Chapman) Parsons of Boston, Mass. He attended the academy at Nyack, N.Y,, was appointed acting midshipman, U.S. Naval academy, May 38, 1853, graduated midshipman, June 10, 1857, and advanced to passed midship- man, June 25, 1860; master, Oct. 24, 1860; lieutenant, April 3, 1861, and lieutenant-com- mander, Jan. 3, 1863. During the civil war he was first attached to the Cumberland, being pres- ent at the burning of the Norfolk navy yard ; was on the frigate Roanoke as flag-lieutenant of Flag-Officer Pendergrast ; also on the gunboat Port Royal, and was slightly wounded in the gun- boat night attack on Appomattox river, June, 1862 ; was flag-lieutenant under Admiral Wilkes, 1862-63; on the Sacramento, 1863-65; and in- structor in mathematics in the U.S. Naval academy, 1865-66. He was married, Sept. 28, 1865, to Flora, daughter of Jolm and Mary (Tyler) Johnson of Annapolis. He was on recruiting duty, Boston, September, 1866 ; in October, 1866, was ordered to sea, and resigned his commission. He resided in Brookline, Mass., and afterward in Philadelphia, Pa., until 1877, when he was ap- pointed pi-ofessor of mathematics in the U.S. navy, Sept. 16, 1877, and ordered on duty at the Nautical Almanac ofiice wliere he served, 1877-78 ; was head of the department of physics and chemistry, U.S. Naval academy, 1879-87 ; was on duty at the Nautical Almanac oflSce, Wash- ington, 1887-99, being made director of the Nau- tical Abnanac, Dec. 20, 1899. On Aug. 25, 1900, having reached the age of 62 years, he was retired according to law.

TODD, John Blair Smith, soldier, was born in Lexington, Ky., April 4, 1814. His parents removed to Illinois in 1827. He was graduated at the U.S. Military academy, 1837 ; commis- sioned 2d lieutenant, 6th infantry, July 1, 1837, and promoted 1st lieutenant, Dec. 25, 1837. He served in the Florida war, 1837-42; was on

frontier duty until 1846, being promoted captain, Nov. 22, 1843, and during the war with Mexico, took part in the siege of Vera Cruz and the bat- tle of Cerro Gordo. He was subsequently sta- tioned in the Northwest until 1855, when he joined in the Sioux expedition, being in the action of Blue Water, Sept. 3, 1855. He resigned his com- mission in 1856, and for five years was an Indian trader in Dakota Territory ; was commissioned brigadier-general of volunteers, Sept. 19, 1861 ; commanded the north Missouri district, October- December, 1861 ; served as a Democratic delegate from Dakota Territory in the 37th and 38th con- gresses, December, 1861-May, 1862, and 1863-65 ; commanded the 6th division of the Army of the Tennessee, June 3-July 17, 1862 ; was speaker of the Dakota house of representatives, 1867, and governor of the territory, 1869-71. He died at Yankton, Dak., Jan. 5, 1872.

TODD, Mabel Loomis, author, was born in Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 10, 1858; daughter of Professor Eben Jenks and Mary Alden (Wilder) Loomis ; granddaughter of Nathan and Waite (Barber) Loomis and of the Rev. John and Mary AVales (Forbes) Wilder, and a descendant of Col. Samuel Tyler of Preston", Conn., and of John Alden of the Mayflou-er. She attended private schools in Washington, D.C., and in Boston, Mass., where she made a specialty of thestudj^ of music and painting, and was married, Mai-ch 5, 1879, to David Todd (q.v.). She accompanied her husband to Japan in 1887 and 1896, and to Tripoli, Barbary, in 1900, rendering active sev- vice in his observations, and upon her return, embodying the results of her experience in drawing-room talks, delivered in the larger cities of tlie country ; among them, one on the " Ainu Land," which she visited in 1896, making an ethnological collection of personal and do- mestic articles peculiar to the Ainus, for the Pea- body museum at Salem, Mass. In 1901 she went with her husband on his eclipse expedition to the Dutch East Indies, completing on this oc- casion a trip around the world, and visiting Siam, Borneo, the Philippines, China, Japan and Hawaii. Mrs. Todd designed the cover of Dr. Samuel H. Scudder's " The Butterflies of New England," edited " The Poems of Emily Dickin- son" (3 vols., 1890-93) ; "The Letters of Emily Dickinson" (1894); "A Cycle of Sonnets" (1896) ; revised Steele's " Popular Astronomy " (1899), and is the author of: Footprints (1883); Total Eclipses of the Sun (1894) ; Corona and Coronet (1898), and extensive contributions on her travels to leading pei'iodicals.

TODD, Thomas, jurist, was born in King and Queen county, Va., Jan. 23, 1765. His parents died while he was very young and he was left in care of a guardian, who afforded him the oppor-