Photo 2: pre-Oct. 1862

Reverse of Photo 2: “Mrs. Elise M. Todd from her affectionate husband Geo. B. Todd Asst. Surgeon 12th N.Y.V.”

 

George Brainard Todd, M.D. (1834-1874)

m. Elizabeth Matilda Todd (1831-1864)

Christopher Todd of New Haven, CT. was Fourth Great Grandfather of both.

m. Ella S. Latsch (6 Mar 1839- 26 May 1912, Baltimore, Md) Ran a Boarding House in 1880 (Ella is living at 203 Linden Ave., Baltimore, Md. with Florence, Fred and George. Her stated age is 35, and marital status is Widowed. Her occupation is listed as "Keeping House". Both Fred and George's occupations are listed as "Clerk". Oddly enough, Florence is listed as her daugh., but Fred and George are listed as step-sons. Florence was born before the death of Eliz. Matilda Todd, her mother.)

 

married: 7 Oct 1857

married: 9 Apr 1866, Baltimore, Md.

 

b. 30 Apr 1834, Marcellus, Onondaga Co., NY

d. 20 Sep 1874, Pensacola, FL

 

burial: Buried in Fayetteville Cemetery, Fayetteville, N.Y. Civilian tombstone. USN appears beneath his name. Died 1874.

 

children:

Frederick Perine Todd, D.D.S. (1860-1932)

Florence Elizabeth Todd (1853-1943)

George Swain Todd, D.D.S. (1858-1905)

 

Son of Caleb Todd (1805-1875) and Sarah Todd (1804-1876).

 

occ. Asst. Surgeon 12^th N.Y.V; Surgeon, private practice & for Union Army and Navy serving on monitor class ship, the Montauk

 

ed. Grad. from Onondaga Valley Academy & Albany Medical School

 

Additional info:

 

According to the Onondaga, NY genealogy website, he is mentioned as a business person, I assume for his private medical practice, in the Manlius local papers, directories and/or other selected sources.

 

The military pension application states that he's buried at Loudon Park Cemetery in Plot 519 of the Bethel section of the cemetery.

 

Dr. Todd graduated from the Onondaga Valley Academy and the Albany Medical School, and was thereafter duly licensed as a physician. On May 13, 1861, he was mustered in the 12 NY Vol. Infantry as Assistant Surgeon. Later he was commissioned in the same capacity in the US Navy and served through the war. Shortly after the war, he was again commissioned in the Navy, and died of yellow fever while attending the sick during an epidemic at Pensacola Navy Yard in 1874. He was then Acting Past Assistant Surgeon. For some years he practiced medicine while a civilian in Onondaga Co., NY but the greater part of his professional life was devoted to the service.

 

Obituary, Baltimore Sun:

"Died in Pensacola, Fla., acting Surgeon, George Brainard
Todd, M. D. He was born in Marcellus, Onondaga County, N.
Y., and graduated at the University of New York, at Albany.
He also received collegiate diplomas from other schools of
medicine, the last from the University of Maryland, in which
State he resumed practice after the termination of the war
of the rebellion. In the early part of these troubles, he
volunteered as an assistant surgeon in the army, and was
associated with the accomplished Surgeon and Medical
Director, Tripler, from whom he received most gratifying
notice of professional services and manly worth. His self
possession in danger, his devotion to duty, and his patience
in the surgery of resection, with the desire to save limbs
to the wounded, commanded the enconiums of his superiors,
and the gratitude of the unfortunate. Doctor Todd was in
many sharp engagements in the field, and in the Navy, during
the closing years of the civil war, in practical ironclad
service. He not only gave his full professional abilities to
each branch of our defense, with the pure patriotism of
duty, but he combined those with the Samaritan tenderness of
the true Physician, and when the cloud of war hovered over
the seizure of the Virginius, he again offered in sacrifice,
domestic happiness and pecuniary profit, and volunteered,
without reserve, for duty. An ornament to his God-like
profession, he has fallen in the path of duty, and in the hearts of
those who knew him best, there will be deep grief, that so bright
an example of manhood has been withdrawn from earth. His character
was warmly appreciated and beloved by the humblest in official
place. The lowest in intellect, and the most obtuse in
perception, recognized him as an honest, faithful man in the
discharge of duty and the obligations of friendship. But
"Tis not all of death to die," and in this is our comfort
and our hope."

 

Listed under Practitioners in the Medical Care in the City of Baltimore,
Copyright 02 Oct 1999 Maryland State Archives
Used for educational purposes only.

George Brainard Todd
Eugene F. Cordell, Medical Annals ofMaryland Baltimore: Medical & Chiurgical Faculty of the State of Md., 1903
Dates:1833-1874
Notes: Born in Onondaga County, N.Y., 1833. Educated at Univ. of New York;
M.D., Univ. of New York; Assistant Surgeon, U.S.A., 1861; later, Surgeon, U.S.N.; began practice at Baltimore about 1866; returned to Navy. Died at Pensacola, Fla. of yellow-fever, September 22, 1874.

Date Address Occupation Source
1867-1868 412 W Fayette doctor 1867-68CD
1868-1869 412 W Fayette doctor 1868-69CD

 

George B. is mentioned three times in a diary kept by a 16 year old in the Regimental Band of the 12th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment. The hyperlink mentioned above will give you access to the diary online. Mentions: 1)Feb. 5, 1862 "Doct [George B.] Todd [Asst. Surgeon] was here from the fort." 2) Feb. 11, 1862 "Frank, Still, Barnum Church and myself went up to the Docts tent and was vaccinated for the kind pox. Doctor Philips [of the 149th NYV] vaccinated the other guys and Doctor Todd did me." 3) Charley and Doct. Todd came in then and filled out Charley Griffins discharge [disability]." You can see this diary online HERE

 

He was at the Battle of Antietam in Sept of 1862. ... His unit was at Antietam, but was held in reserves and suffered no casualities, though he did aid the wounded according to the Medical Museum in Frederick, Md. ... He served at the end of the war on the Monitor "Montauk", where he helped perform the autopsy on John Wilkes Booth. He was also at Ford's Theater on the 14th of April, 1865. In a letter addressed to his brother he describes what happened that night and was given a note by an unknown general and told to go to the nearest telegraph office to inform the nation.

 

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