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John Todd, pastor, author, born in Rutland, Vermont, 9 October, 1800; died in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, 24 August, 1873. His boyhood was passed in poverty, but he fitted himself for college, and was graduated at Yale in 1822. He spent the following year in teaching, then entered Andover theological seminary, and in 1827 was ordained a minister of the Congregational church in Groton, Massachusetts He became pastor of the church in...John Todd, pastor, author, born in Rutland, Vermont, 9 October, 1800; died in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, 24 August, 1873. His boyhood was passed in poverty, but he fitted himself for college, and was graduated at Yale in 1822. He spent the following year in teaching, then entered Andover theological seminary, and in 1827 was ordained a minister of the Congregational church in Groton, Massachusetts He became pastor of the church in Northampton in 1833, of the 1st Congregational church in Philadelphia in 1836, and of the 1st Congregational church in Pittsfield in 1842. Here he remained as pastor until May, 1872, when his strength was impaired by old age. In 1845 he received the degree of D.D. from Williams. Dr. Todd took a warm interest in the progress of education, and the Holyoke female seminary partly owes its existence to him. He was a voluminous and popular writer. Besides his contributions to the "Congregationalist" and other religious periodicals, and his sermons, lectures, and orations, he published about thirty volumes, all of which were re-issued in England, and several of them have been translated into German, French, modern Greek, Dutch, Danish, Italian, Arabic, Armenian, Turkish, and Tamil. Three of Todd's books have recently been republished by Solid Ground Christian Books in Birmingham, Alabama - "Feed My Lambs", "Truth Made Simple" and "The Man of Business." | more | less
