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Levi Todd
Levi Todd (October 4, 1756 – September 6, 1807) was an 18th-century American pioneer who, with his brothers John and Robert Todd, helped found present-day Lexington, Kentucky and were leading prominent landowners and statesmen in the state of Kentucky prior to its admission into the United States in 1792. He was also the grandfather of Mary Todd Lincoln, the later wife of President Abraham Lincoln, born to his son Robert S. Todd, a longtime clerk of the Kentucky House of Representatives and later representative of Fayette County. His grandson John T. Stuart, born to his daughter Hannah Todd and noted Presbyterian preacher Rev. Robert Stuart, was a prominent Illinois lawyer and a later partner of Lincoln.〔Herndon, William H. and Jesse W. Weik. ''Abraham Lincoln''. Vol. 1 New York and London: Appleton & Co., 1913. (pg. 192-193)〕〔Reynolds, John. ''The Pioneer History of Illinois: Containing the Discovery, in 1673, and the History of the Country to the Year 1818''. Chicago: Furgus Printing Company, 1887. (pg. 143)〕 Two of his daughters married politicians, Jane Briggs marrying congressman Daniel Breck and Elizabeth Todd marrying Charles M. Carr, the son of Kentucky statesman Walter Carr.〔''The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the United States, Volume XI''. New York: James T. White & Co., 1901. (pg. 412)〕 ==Biography==
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