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John Chester Backus (September 3, 1810 – April 8, 1884) was an American Presbyterian minister. Backus, son of Eleazer F. Backus, a retired wholesale bookseller, of Albany, N. Y., and of Elizabeth, daughter of Col. John Chester, of Wethersfield, Conn., was born in Wethersfield, September 3, 1810. He entered Columbia College in 1826, and removed to Yale College the latter part of Sophomore year, where he graduate in 1830. He studied law for one year at Yale Law School, but under convictions of duty then joined the Yale Divinity Schoo 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. He married, June 2, 1840, Letitia C. Cooper, daughter of John C. Smith, of Philadelphia, who survived him with one daughter. ==External links== * 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Chester Backus」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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