|
JUDGE DAVID TODD
JUDGE TODD PRESIDED
OVER THE
FIRST CIRCUIT COURT
THAT WAS
HELD IN RANDLPH
COUNTY IN 1829.FEW OF
THE EARLY JUDGES OF
MISSOURI WERE
BETTER KNOWN THAN
HIM.HE WAS A NATIVE
OF KENTUCKY AND WAS
BORN ABOUT THE YEAR
1790 IN FAYETTE
COUNTY.HE CAME TO MISSOURI
AT AN EARLY AGE AND
LOCATED IN OLD FRANKLIN
IN HOWARD
COUNTY,WHERE HE HAD TO CONTEND WITH
MEN SUCH AS JUDGE
LEONARD,CHARLES FRENCH,
GOV HAMILTON R
GAMBLE,AND OTHERS NO LESS
DISTINGUISHED AS
EMINENTLAWYERS AND JURISTS.
HE WAS APPOINTED
JUDGE OF THE HOWARD CIRCUIT
WHICH AFTERWORDS
INCLUDED RANDOLPH COUTY.
HE WAS AN
IMPARTIAL,CONSCIENTIO US,AND UPRIGHT
JUDGE.HE DIED IN
COLUMBIA BOONE COUNTY MISSOURI
IN 1859
|