Background
Backus, Wilson Marvin was born on February 11, 1865 in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Edwin Eli and Clarissa Jeanette (Brainard) Backus.
Backus, Wilson Marvin was born on February 11, 1865 in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Edwin Eli and Clarissa Jeanette (Brainard) Backus.
Educated Iowa State College, Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa, and Cambridge University, England.
Ordained Unitarian ministry, 1888. Pastor successively, Alton, Illinois, Chicago, Minneapolis, Minnesota, and at Lawrence, Kansas, since 1923. President Southwestern Federation of Religious Liberals since 1928.
Author of various monographs on religious subjects.
Home: 1115 Louisiana Saint, Lawrence, Kansas
Married Mary Day, September 2, 1890. Children: Edwin Burdette, Hugh Day.