Benton Co., AR - Biographies - Elder William J. Todd

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Elder William J. Todd, pastor of the Primitive Baptist Church at 
Rogers, Ark., was born in Andrew County, Mo., July 29, 1849, and is 
the sixth of nine children born to the marriage of Zapnath Todd and 
Sarah C. Stephens. Both parents were of Kentucky stock, and were 
married in Missouri, which was the father's birthplace. William J. 
Todd was reared, educated, married and ordained a minister of the 
Primitive Baptist Church in Missouri. While in Missouri he followed 
mercantile pursuits, and also carried on that business after coming to 
Rogers, in 1883. He is a man of great public spirit and enterprise, 
and is eminently fitted for an active business life. He has assisted 
materially in pushing forward many of the best enterprises of which 
Benton County can boast, and is now the president of the Rogers 
Canning and Packing Company, and is also president of the Benton 
County Horticultural, Agricultural and Mechanical Fair, and president 
of the Northwest Arkansas Horticultural Society. Besides the labor his 
connection with these institutions involves, he is pastor of the 
Little Flock Church, Oak Grove Church, and has regular appointments 
close to Lowell and on Pea Ridge. He was married to Sarah Z. Thornton, 
by whom he has an interesting little family of two children: Edna and 
Nellie.