Levi Todd, Lexington Co-Founder

He became Kentucky County’s first clerk in 1777, rode with George Rogers Clark’s Illinois campaign (including the capture of Kaskaskia in 1778), and later served decades as Fayette County clerk.

In August 1782 he led a forty-man relief column toward Bryan Station, then fought at Blue Licks—where brother Col. John Todd was killed—and wrote one of the earliest official accounts of the defeat. He rose to major general of Kentucky militia, built Ellerslie (Fayette’s first brick house), and was grandfather of Mary Todd Lincoln.