The History of Hendricks County (Chicago: Interstate Publishing, 1885)--Lincoln Township, page 668
William Todd, one of the representative citizens of Lincoln Township, is a native of Chillicothe, Ohio, born Oct. 2, 1816, a son of James and Mary A. Todd. When he was two years of age his parents moved to Switzerland County, Ind., where they both died. Three of their seven children are living--William, Henry and Rose. Those deceased are--Prilly, Matilda, John and Harriat. William Todd was reared in Switzerland County. In 1836 he came to Hendricks County, and soon after went to Boone County and entered forty acres of land, subsequently buying forty acres adjoining. He lived in Boone County till the fall of 1842, when he came to Hendricks County and located in the southern part of Lincoln Township, where he lived nearly forty years. In the fall of 1880 he retired from the active labors of the farm and moved to Brownsburg, where he has a pleasant home. His farm of 115 acres is under a high state of cultivation, and the improvements are among the best in Lincoln Township. He has been an energetic, frugal man, and is now reaping the reward of his early years of toil. Mr. Todd was married Sept. 12, 1839, to Leanna Newham, who was born May 26, 1820, a daughter of Daniel and Annie Newham, early settlers of Hendricks County. They have one child--Mary A., now Mrs. William Renick, of Brownsburg, this county. In politics Mr. Todd is a Democrat.