Sacramento County
Biographies
CLARENCE D. TODD
CLARENCE D. TODD.—A
most interesting establishment in whose activities, output and fame the
citizens of Sacramento naturally
take a just pride, is that of Clarence D. Todd, the owner of the Sacramento Art
Glass Works, at 1610 J Street, Sacramento. He
was born at Washington, D.C.,
in September, 1887, the son of George M. and Kate (Vail) Todd, who eventually
came to locate here. In the meantime, and prior to their coming, Clarence
Todd attended both the grammar and the high schools of the district in New
Jersey in which he was then living, and later engaged in lampshade
work, following his high-art trade in Philadelphia and
also in New York, where he had a
good fortune to be associated with Messrs. Tiffany & Company.
In 1912, Mr. Todd came to California,
and the following year he established this business in Sacramento, making a specialty of art-glass and glazing of al
kinds. He has contracted for all the art-glass required for certain
store-fronts in town, and he has also handled the W. P. Fuller Company
glass-work, catering to the demands of northern California
and Nevada. It was the Todd establishment that supplied the
glass and glass-work for the St. Elizabeth Church, the Catholic
Oak Park Church, and also the Presbyterian and Weslyan Churches, and he supplies the art-glass
and metal lights in all the modern homes erected in Sacramento and vicinity. In 1923, Mr. Todd purchased the lot
at 1610 J Street and erected the first unit of a four-story building, a
modern structure suitable for his needs.
Mr. Todd married Miss Florence Marie
Merrifield in 1915, the ceremony taking place at Stockton; and their union has been blessed with the birth of one
child, a daughter named Florence Nan. Mr. Todd belongs to the Knights of Pythias, in which he has gone through all of the chairs,
and is a past chancellor; he takes an active part in the Knights of Pythias work, and is now secretary of the insurance
department. Politically he is a Democrat. Like all residents of the
county, he is fond of outdoor life.
Transcribed 8-13-07
Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Reed, G.
Walter, History of Sacramento County,
California With Biographical Sketches, Page 994. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Marilyn R. Pankey.