Career of Levi Luther Todd: born, Sept. 2, 1830, in Nicholasville, Kentucky; son of Judge Levi Luther and Sarah (Ashby) Todd; at age of 17 attended Danville Seminary for two terms, followed by a year and a half at Wabash College; studied medicine for a year under Dr. David Todd of Danville, Indiana, and his brother Robert Nathaniel Todd; appointed captain of Washington Guards, 1st regiment 6th military district, Indiana militia, June 27, 1854; graduated from University of Louisville, Mar. 1856; married Susan G. Todd of Paris, Kentucky, 1857; in spring of 1858 moved to Paris, Illinois, where he practiced medicine for 16 years; president and secretary of the Esculapian Society of the Wabash Valley; Jan. 1874, moved to Indianapolis, Indiana, and practiced medicine with Robert Nathaniel Todd and James K. Bigelow; professor of clinical medicine at Central College of Physicians and Surgeons, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1893-1901; died Nov. 16, 1901. Children: Mrs. Samuel David Murphy, Margaret Ashby (Mrs. George Frank Holland), Susan, and Nancy (Mrs. Martin M. Hugg). Biographical material on Levi Luther Todd may be found in R.F. Stone's Biography of Eminent American Physicians and Surgeons , (Indianapolis, 1894), p.690; the Indiana Medical Journal , XX, p.206, 1901-1902; and the Transactions of the Indiana State Medical Society, 1902, p.425.

The papers, 1851-1901, of Levi Luther Todd include: Todd's memorandum books, 1851-1899; his commission as captain in the Washington guards, 1854; a speech, "Natural forces," delivered in behalf of the Board of Trustees of the Medical College of Indiana, 1880; a report of grades of his daughter, Susan Todd, at the Indianapolis female seminary, 1882; correspondence with relatives and friends, 1893-1901; a speech, "Our departed brothers," delivered at a banquet of the Mystic Tie Lodge, a Masonic body in Indianapolis, 1894; lectures on various medical subjects, 1894-1897 and undated; a prescription book, 1895-1897; specifications for two houses to be built in west Indianapolis, 1900; a paper on Edgar Allan Poe; a commencement address "to the friends of the Central med[ical] college"; and some genealogical notes on the Todd family.

The collection also contains a grant of land to George Rogers Clark, 1781; a report of the strength of the 8th regiment of Kentucky militia, 1792, certified by Levi Todd, 1756-1807, uncle of Levi Luther Todd, 1791-1867, and grandfather of Mary (Todd) Lincoln; a letter copybook of James Hughes, 1823-1873, congressman, pertaining to his law practice in Bloomington, 1845-1853; a list of graduates of the Central College of Physicians and Surgeons, Indianapolis, 1934; letters to Nancy (Todd) Hugg, daughter of Levi Luther Todd, 1830-1901, from her cousin, Robert, 1934-1937, and from her husband, Martin M. Hugg, 1935-1938; and undated volume on diseases by Dr. M.H. Shrum; two unidentified daguerreotypes; and some printed items

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