Background
Backus, son of Eleazer F. Backus, a retired wholesale bookseller, of Albany, New York, and of Elizabeth, daughter of Colonel John Chester, of Wethersfield, Connecticut, was born in Wethersfield, September 3, 1810.
assistant secretary Presbyterian minister
Backus, son of Eleazer F. Backus, a retired wholesale bookseller, of Albany, New York, and of Elizabeth, daughter of Colonel John Chester, of Wethersfield, Connecticut, was born in Wethersfield, September 3, 1810.
He studied law for one year at Yale Law School, but under convictions of duty then joined the Yale Divinity School, where he remained for part of a year.
He entered Columbia College in 1826, and removed to Yale College the latter part of Sophomore year, where he graduate in 1830. He accepted the call, and was installed September 15, 1836, and in this charge he continued until his death, although relieved in 1875 at his own request from active duty. In 1848 he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Hanover College, Indiana.
And in 1875 that of Doctor of Laws from the College of New Jersey, of which he was a Trustee from 1860 to 1872.
In 1861 he was the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbytenan Church (Old School). He died at his residence in Baltimore, after a few weeks" illness, April 8, 1884, in his 74th year.
This article incorporates public domain material from the 1884 Yale Obituary Record.