William H. Todd (1864-1932)[1][2] was a shipbuilder and an avid philanthropist.

[3] He was born on November 27, 1864, the son of a boilermaker in Wilmington, Delaware.

[3] He apprenticed to be a shipwright at the Pusey and Jones Shipyard in Wilmington as a young man and moved to Brooklyn, New York in 1893 to work in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

[3] He left the Navy Yard in 1896, to become foreman of the Robins Dry Dock & Repair Company of Erie Basin.

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