John Todd (1818-1894) was a Congregationalist minister, co-founder of Tabor College in Tabor, Iowa, a leading abolitionist and a ‘conductor’ on the Underground Railroad. An early graduate of Oberlin College (Oberlin, Ohio) and its seminary, Todd moved west to help start an Oberlin-like school on the Iowa frontierTodd, Rev. John, Early Settlement and Growth of Western Iowa, on Reminiscences, Historical Department of Iowa, 1906.