WINNESHIEK COUNTY, IOWA BIOGRAPHY: 1885
GEORGE TODD- page 641
GEORGE TODD, farmer, Fremont Township; owns 100 acres, 72 1/2 in Section 14 and 24 1/2 in Section 35, near Plymouth Rock. He was born in County Armagh, Ireland in 1828 and was a weaver by trade; came to the United States in 1851, settled in Elgin, Illinois and worked at the trade of mason and plasterer and at farming until 1856; then went to Elgin for six months; then came to this place and took a claim of 80 acres, all he could get at that time, and thoroughly improved it, and since bought the rest. He was married at Decorah, IOWA in 1858 to Miss Richards