Samuel B. Todd

1878: clerk for D.H. Holmes, lived at 211 Hospital Street (now Governor Nicholls, and address corresponds to a location between Rampart and Marais)

1882: clerk for Fellman Brothers (Bernard Fellman)

1885: clerk for J. Rosenberg & Company, fancy dry goods

1886: clerk for Gruber & Prosdame (Prosdame related to the Runkel family he later worked for)

Throughout the late 1880's and early 1890's, worked for Charles A. Kaufman and Marks Isaacs at Kaufman & Isaacs, living at various French Quarter locations.

1893 New Orleans City Directory: a window dresser for A. Runkel, living at 145 Canal Street

1895 worked as the manager of the carpet department of Johnson, Grehan, & Co. at 2000 Magazine Street (corner of St. Andrew Street), living with his mother at 520 St. Peter Street.