Tod, George

Epithet: Writer to the Signet; of Elgin

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• December 11, 1773: Born, Suffield, Connecticut, of David and Rachel (Kent) Tod.
• 1795: Graduated Yale. Entered Litchfield Law School.
• 1797: Married Sarah Isaacs. Admitted to the bar and began practice in New Haven, Connecticut.
• 1800: Removed to Youngstown, Ohio. Admitted to the bar at Marietta.
• August 1800: Appointed prosecuting attorney of Trumbull County, Northwest Territory.
• 1801: Retained by the Connecticut Land Company in connection with partition of the Salt Spring Tract.
• 1802: Became appraiser of taxable property.
• 1803: Appointed road commissioner.
• 1804 - 1806 : Served in Ohio State Senate.
• January 1807: Appointed to State Supreme Court, after serving as interim judge.
• 1807 - 1809 : Upheld right of courts to declare unconstitutional an act of the legislature.
• 1807 - 1819 : Advocates of legislative supremacy bring impeachment proceedings against Tod, failing by one vote.
• 1808: Elected right worshipful Senior Grand Warden of the Grand Lodge of Ohio Masons.
• 1810: Removed from the Bench by political manuever.
• 1810: Made supervisor of roads in Trumbull County, Ohio.
• 1810 - 1812 : Served in Ohio State Senate.
• 1812: Served in War of 1812 as major of the 19th Infantry in Northern Ohio.
• 1812: Served in War of 1812 as lieutenant colonel of the 17th Infantry in regular army.
• 1812: Active at Fort Meigs and Sackett's Harbour in War of 1812.
• February 1816: Elected presiding judge of the Third District Court of Appeals. Served until 1829.
• 1817 - 1818 : Elected as first president of first agricultural society in Trumbull County, Ohio.
• 1840: Chairman of Warren, Ohio, convention to promote presidential candidacy of William H. Harrison.
• April 11, 1841: Died at "Brier Hill" near Youngstown, Ohio.

From the guide to the George Tod Papers, 1783-1834, 1800-1829, (Western Reserve Historical Society)