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KANAWHA COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA - BIOS: BACKUS, S.G. ****************************************************************** Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by: Sandy Spradling SSpradling@AOL.com September 26, 1999 ******************************************************************
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.
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