Amos V. Todd WWI ephemera, 1917-1919

Collection

Identifier: 1992-007

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The Amos Todd ephemera consists of a group photo of the members of the Ambulance Company 167, 117th Sanitary Train, 42nd (Rainbow) Division, American Expedition Forces; a framed photographic reproduction of the officers and crew of the US Transport Mount Vernon; and the Roster of the Ambulance Company 167, 117th Sanitary Train, 42nd (Rainbow) Division, American Expeditionary Forces.

Dates

Creation: 1917 - 1919

Creator

Todd, Amos Virgil, 1896-1993 (Compiler, Person)

Language

These materials are in English.

Access

This material is open for research use by any registered reader.

Use and Copyright

This material is owned by the University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections. Unpublished photographs may be under copyright. Therefore, permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from both the repository and the copyright holder.

Biographical / Historical

Amos V. Todd was a Tulsa native, who enlisted 1 May 1917 as a member of the Tulsa (or Oklahoma) Ambulance Co. Company, which formed the basis of the Ambulance Co. 167, attached to the 117th Sanitary Train, 42d (Rainbow) Division, AEF.

After the war he served as an office manager at Guston-Bacon manufacturing Co, then as an Insurance agent and manager for both the Prudential Life Insurance Company, and the American National Insurance Co., before entering the field of real estate.

He married Bessie Holmes, and they had two children: Donald Grimes Todd, and Robert Virgil Todd.