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You list the Captain of the Rose Bud in 1887 as Joe Todd. There are no other references to him in your database. He was really Josephus Todd, I, as was his son, my grandfather Josephus Todd, II, and his son, my father, Josephus Todd. There was also Captain John Todd who was the father of the first Josephus Todd and was my great, great grandfather. The family came to St. Louis from Wellsville, Ohio. John is referred to in "The Conquest of The Missouri" by Joseph Mills Hanson (A.C. McClurg & Co. 1906) He worked with Grant Marsh and the Coulsons. He Captained the Jospehine and the Key West among other Coulson boats during the Custer Campaign against the Sioux in the summer of 1873 along with Captain Grant Marsh, evenutallly bringing survivors back from the Little Bighorn.



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