Charles Burr Todd

He was born at Redding, Connecticut, educated at the common schools, and fitted for college, but failure of eyesight prevented him from entering.

As a Redding resident and historian he was interested in preserving the site, which is now a state park dedicated to Putnam's encampment.

In 1895 he was secretary of the committee appointed by Mayor Strong for the printing of early records of New York City.

In 1903 Todd entered a Washington, D.C. police station, claiming that he had been poisoned and that detectives from New York City were pursuing him with the intent of killing him for magazine articles he had written a decade earlier and that offended certain prominent New Yorkers.

He appeared otherwise sane but was nonetheless confined to an insane asylum for eight days, whereupon he was released.