MEMORIAL OF J. E. TODD 



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of Bachelor of Divinit}^ in 1870. During the Civil War he served 100 

 days in 1864 as private in Company K, 150th Ohio Infantry. He was 

 married June 15, 1876, to Miss Lillie Carpenter, of Tabor, Iowa, and is 

 survived by his widow and three sons. The eldest son. Prof. M. E. Todd, 

 IS an electrical engineer on the faculty of the University of Minnesota, 

 The second son, E. A. Todd, is a chemist employed in oil plants in Okla- 

 homa. The third son, J. E. Todd, is treasurer of Robert College, Con- 

 stantinople, Turkey. 



Although trained for the ministry. Professor Todd devoted his entire 

 life to the teaching and investigation of scientific matters. He used his 

 influence in reconciling science and religion, and by his earnest Christian 

 life, together with his devotion to scientific truth, did much to illustrate 

 the close relation that science and religion have to the true purpose of life. 



For 21 years, from 1871 to 1892, Professor Todd filled the chair of 

 natural science at Tabor College. In the summer months, beginning in 

 1881, he was employed as a special assistant and later as assistant geol- 

 ogist on the United States Geological Survey. His field of work was 

 chiefly in the Dakotas, in the studies of the glacial deposits. In 1891 he 

 was employed in the summer months by the Missouri Geological Survey 

 in a study of the Quaternary deposits, and in the summers of the next 

 two seasons he had an assignment on the Minnesota Geological Survey, 

 to study the drift deposits and lake beaches in the northwestern part of 

 that State. In 1893 Professor Todd received appointment as State Geol- 

 ogist of South Dakota and as professor of geology and mineralogy in the 

 University of South Dakota, at Vermilion, South Dakota. These posi- 

 tions were held for ten years, during part of which time he was also act- 

 ing president of the university. From 1902 to 1907 Professor Todd made 

 detailed studies of several quadrangles in South Dakota for the United 

 States Geological Survey, which were the basis for geologic folios pub- 

 lished later. In 1907 he was appointed to the chair of geology at the 

 University of Kansas, and in this position he extended his study of the 

 glacial deposits over the glaciated portion of Kansas. This position was 

 held until 1918, when he was retired with the title of professor emeritus 

 of the university. After his retirement poor health prevented further 

 active field-work, but he kept up an active interest in scientific problems 

 to the time of his death, which took place at LaAvrence, Kansas, on Octo- 

 ber 29, 1922. 



Professor Todd was skillful in drawing and in the use of the camera 

 in the field, as will appear by reference to the illustrations accompanying 

 his reports and scientific papers. He was accurate to a nicety, and re- 



