Papers, 1860-1966.

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Papers, 1860-1966.

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Collection contains correspondence, 1872-1909, accounts, 1860- 1909, and miscellaneous business records of Charles Laforester Todd (1840- 1909), president of the Gallego Mills, a flour milling firm in Richmond, Va.; and family and personal correspondence, 1909-1932, account books, 1909, loose accounts, and a scrapbook, 1880-1950, of his wife, Mary Virginia (Powers) Todd (1855-1941) of Richmond. Also, includes correspondence, 1919-1966, of their daughter, Mabel (Todd) Pemberton (1876- 1970) of Richmond; and correspondence, 1901-1937, notebooks, 1908-1909, and accounts of their son, Charles Laforester Todd (1881-1938), a student at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, while serving in the United States Army Corps of Engineers, and while assistant engineer for the city of Richmond, Va.

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Richmond (Va.). Engineering Dept.

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Todd, Charles Laforester, 1860-1909.

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Pemberton, Mabel Todd, 1876-1970.

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Virginia Military Institute

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On March 29, 1839 the General Aslsembly passed the final version of the act establishing a military school at the Lexington arsenal, where the students would protect the arms while pursuing educational courses. The School was named the Virginia Military Institute and is the nation's oldest state supported military college. The governor appointed nine members to the Board of Visitors to oversee the new school and they elected Claudius Crozet as president of the board and named Franci...

Todd, Charles Laforester, 1881-1937.

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United States. Army. Corps of Engineers

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The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is an engineer formation of the United States Army that has three primary mission areas: engineer regiment, military construction, and civil works. The day-to-day activities of the three mission areas are administered by a lieutenant general known as the commanding general/chief of engineers. The chief of engineers commands the engineer regiment, composed of combat engineer army units, and answers directly to the chief of staff of the army. Comba...

Todd family.

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Gallego Mills (Richmond, Va.)

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Todd, Charles Laforester, 1881-1938.

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Todd, Mary Virginia Powers, 1855-1941.

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