Henry Alfred Todd was born at Woodstock, Illinois on March 13, 1854.

[1] He was educated at Princeton (A.B., 1876), and at Paris, Berlin, and Madrid, (1880–83), and at Johns Hopkins University (Ph.D., 1885), where he taught for several years.

He married Miriam Gilman in Baltimore on July 30, 1894, and they had four children.

Among his publications are: Henry Alfred Todd died at his home in New York City on January 3, 1925.

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