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KANAWHA COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA - BIOS: BACKUS, S.G.
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
Sandy Spradling
SSpradling@AOL.com
September 26, 1999
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History of Charleston and Kanawha County, West Virginia and Representative
Citizens
W.S. Laidley
Richmond Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, ILL.
1911
p. 423-424
S. G. BACKUS, M. D., physician and surgeon in active and successful practice
at South Charleston, W. Va., was horn in 1874, in Nicholas County, W. Va., a
son of B. F. and Albina (Dorsey) Backus. The father of Dr. Backus was twice
married, first to a Miss Carolina Grose and three of their four children
survive. Mr. Backus died on his farm in Nicholas County at the age of
seventy-four years. Eight children were born to his second marriage.
S. G. Backus attended the public schools and then commenced the study of
medicine, com-pleting his medical course in the Eclectic Medical College at
Cincinnati, 0., where he was graduated in 1904. He immediately engaged in
practice at Sunimersville, in Nicholas Coun-ty and remained there until 1909,
when he came to South Charleston, where he built his present well equipped
office near the C. & 0. Railroad depot. His practice comes from a wide
surrounding territory. He is special surgeon for the South Charleston
Crusher Company.
Dr. Backus married Miss Araminta S. Maynor, a native of Fayette County, and
daughter of John A. and Martha Maynor, the former of whom is deceased. They
have one daughter, Juanita Frances, who is now five years old. They attend
the Methodist Episcopal church. Dr. Backus is a Republican in politics, and
he belongs to the fraternal order, Knights of Pythias.
Sandy Spradling
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