SOURCE OF NAME "TODD COUNTY"
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Re: SOURCE OF NAME "TODD COUNTY"
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From "Minnesota Place Names" published by Minnesota Historical Society.
"Todd County--
This county, established February 20, 1855, and organized January 1, 1867, was named for John Blair Smith Todd, commander of Fort Ripley (at first called Fort Gaines), 1849-54, which was in the part taken from Todd County in 1856 to form a part of Morrison County. Todd was born in Lexington, Ky., April 4, 1814; was graduated at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, 1837; served in the second Seminole War and the Mexican War; resigned from the army in 1856; was an Indian trader at Fort Randall, Dakota Territory until 1861; was a brigadier general in the Civil War; was a delegate in Congress for Dakota Territory, 1861 and 1863-65, and governor of that territory, 1869-71. He died in Yankton, Dakota Territory, January 5, 1872.
Information on names has been received from History of Morrison and Todd Counties by Clara K. Fuller (2 vols., 1915), having pp. 211-307 on the history of this county; from E. M. Berg, county auditor, Otis B. De Laurier, Hon. William E. Lee, John H. Sheets, and Mrs. John D. Jones, each of Long Prairie, the county seat, interviewed during a visit there in May 1916; and from Wilfred J. Whitefield, the oldest resident of Sauk Centre, Stearns County, also interviewed at his home in May 1916.
The northeast boundary of the great prairie region of southwestern Minnesota crosses the southwest corner of this county and includes sections 31 and 32 and parts of adjoining sections in Gordon, nearly all of West Union, and the south edge of Kandota. From the higher parts of West Union, an extensive view of limitless prairie is seen toward the south and southwest."
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"Todd County--
This county, established February 20, 1855, and organized January 1, 1867, was named for John Blair Smith Todd, commander of Fort Ripley (at first called Fort Gaines), 1849-54, which was in the part taken from Todd County in 1856 to form a part of Morrison County. Todd was born in Lexington, Ky., April 4, 1814; was graduated at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, 1837; served in the second Seminole War and the Mexican War; resigned from the army in 1856; was an Indian trader at Fort Randall, Dakota Territory until 1861; was a brigadier general in the Civil War; was a delegate in Congress for Dakota Territory, 1861 and 1863-65, and governor of that territory, 1869-71. He died in Yankton, Dakota Territory, January 5, 1872.
Information on names has been received from History of Morrison and Todd Counties by Clara K. Fuller (2 vols., 1915), having pp. 211-307 on the history of this county; from E. M. Berg, county auditor, Otis B. De Laurier, Hon. William E. Lee, John H. Sheets, and Mrs. John D. Jones, each of Long Prairie, the county seat, interviewed during a visit there in May 1916; and from Wilfred J. Whitefield, the oldest resident of Sauk Centre, Stearns County, also interviewed at his home in May 1916.
The northeast boundary of the great prairie region of southwestern Minnesota crosses the southwest corner of this county and includes sections 31 and 32 and parts of adjoining sections in Gordon, nearly all of West Union, and the south edge of Kandota. From the higher parts of West Union, an extensive view of limitless prairie is seen toward the south and southwest."
Did Wikepedia cite any sources?