Career of Levi Luther Todd: born, July 26, 1791, in Lexington, Kentucky, son of General Robert and Anne (Todd) Todd; educated at Transylvania university; studied law; practiced law in Kentucky; served in the War of 1812; married Sarah Ashby, 1813; member of Kentucky legislature, 1815; moved family to Greenwood, Indiana, and became a farmer, 1834; judge of Court of common pleas of Marion County, Indiana, 1852-1856; died Jan. 10, 1867, at Southport, Indiana. Biographical material on Levi Luther Todd may be found in papers in the collection and in R.B. Sulgrove, History of Indianapolis and Marion County, Indiana (Philadelphia, 1884), p.498.

The papers, 1812-1858, of Levi Luther Todd include: the original and negative microfilm of his War of 1812 orderly book, Aug. 15, 1812-Feb. 14, 1813, for Captain Nathaniel G.S. Hart's company of Kentucky light infantry; a muster roll of the same company in the War of 1812 made by him from memory in 1851; his commissions as captain of the Lexington light infantry, 1st battalion, 42nd regiment, dated Apr. 16, 1813, as aide-de-camp to Brigadier-general James Shelby, Oct. 13, 1817, and as captain of the Montgomery independent rifle company, Aug. 10, 1819; George Caldwell's morning report of Captain Bean's company of U.S. rangers, Apr. 11, 1833; a letter, Dec. 1, 1843, from William Orlando Butler, 1791-1880, to Levi Luther Todd; and a letter, Sept. 27, 1858, to him from John O'Fallon, 1791-1865

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