Timeline

Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
1834/07/26 Elizabeth Pond Toof, wife of Stephen Cummings Toof, gives birth to a son, Stephen Cummings Toof, in Montreal, Quebec, Province of Canada. Born
1850/00/00 Stephen C Toof becomes an apprentice printer at the Weekly Dispatch of Keokuk, Iowa. Work Keokuk Iowa
1852/00/00 Stephen Toof moves South to Memphis, a town of 6000 people on the Mississippi River, and begins working as a printer at the Daly Eagle and Enquirer. Work
1855/09/00 Stephen Toof obtains the position of composing foreman at the Memphis Daily Appeal, forerunner of The Commercial Appeal. Work
1856/00/00 Mary Bates, daughter of Daniel Moses Bates of the Christian Evangelist and Sarah Ann Lavender Bates, marries Stephen Cummings Toof is buried at Elmwood Cemetery in Memphis, Tennessee. Groom
1862/06/00 When Memphis' capture appears imminent, Stephen Toof organizes the evacuation of the Appeal, a vital Confederate newspaper, aboard a freight car in the last Confederate train out of Memphis. Work
1864/00/00 Stephen Toof opens Franklin Job Printing House (lost) at 15 West Court Street, between Main and Front. Work
1865/00/00 Stephen Cummings Toof acquires a 500-acre farm east of Memphis sometime during the War Between the States. Owner Graceland Memphis, TN
1900/00/00 William H Bates and Stephen Toof incorporate under the name of S C Toof and Co, with Mr Toof as president. The predecessor of Toof American Digital. Work
1910/05/14 S C Toof dies suddenly at his home, 254 Lauderdale Street (lost). "Earlier in the afternoon he had been at his office, talking over matters of business with W H Bates, and remarked that he felt unusally well." - Memphis Commercial Appeal Died
1910/05/16 Stephen Cummings Toof is buried at Elmwood Cemetery in Memphis, Tennessee. In Memoriam Elmwood Cemetery Memphis, TN
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