From Ontario County Journal 29 December 1876
Died - at his home in this village on the 26th inst., Clinton C. Backus, in the 65th year of his age.
Mr. Backus was born at Freetown, county of Cortland in this state, January 18th, 1812. He became a resident of Canandaigua in 1864, and although but comparatively a few of the active years of his life were spent in our midst, yet he endeared himself to whomever he came in contact with. He has held several positions of trust and responsibility since he came among us, and whatever the work assigned him to do it was well, faithfully and uprightly executed.
A wife and three daughters are left with hearts bleeding, because the tender husband and loving father is no longer of the household. Two of the daughters are married, the oldest the wife of Hon. Hanford Struble, of Penn Yan; the other of H. C. Harpending, Esq., of Dundee.
The funeral exercises were conducted at his late residence on Dungan street at 3 o'clock yesterday. The deceased was a man of more than ordinary business qualifications, and as an exemplary Christian, a safe adviser and a true friend he had few equals.
We deeply sympathize with the bereaved family, as we well know the broken tie has cast deep the shadows of sorrow; but why not look up and smile even in the midst of tears, for the summons that called the father, husband and friend gives to him a peaceful rest in the home of immortality.
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Died - at his home in this village on the 26th inst., Clinton C. Backus, in the 65th year of his age.
Mr. Backus was born at Freetown, county of Cortland in this state, January 18th, 1812. He became a resident of Canandaigua in 1864, and although but comparatively a few of the active years of his life were spent in our midst, yet he endeared himself to whomever he came in contact with. He has held several positions of trust and responsibility since he came among us, and whatever the work assigned him to do it was well, faithfully and uprightly executed.
A wife and three daughters are left with hearts bleeding, because the tender husband and loving father is no longer of the household. Two of the daughters are married, the oldest the wife of Hon. Hanford Struble, of Penn Yan; the other of H. C. Harpending, Esq., of Dundee.
The funeral exercises were conducted at his late residence on Dungan street at 3 o'clock yesterday. The deceased was a man of more than ordinary business qualifications, and as an exemplary Christian, a safe adviser and a true friend he had few equals.
We deeply sympathize with the bereaved family, as we well know the broken tie has cast deep the shadows of sorrow; but why not look up and smile even in the midst of tears, for the summons that called the father, husband and friend gives to him a peaceful rest in the home of immortality.
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From Ontario County Journal 29 December 1876
Died - at his home in this village on the 26th inst., Clinton C. Backus, in the 65th year of his age.
Mr. Backus was born at Freetown, county of Cortland in this state, January 18th, 1812. He became a resident of Canandaigua in 1864, and although but comparatively a few of the active years of his life were spent in our midst, yet he endeared himself to whomever he came in contact with. He has held several positions of trust and responsibility since he came among us, and whatever the work assigned him to do it was well, faithfully and uprightly executed.
A wife and three daughters are left with hearts bleeding, because the tender husband and loving father is no longer of the household. Two of the daughters are married, the oldest the wife of Hon. Hanford Struble, of Penn Yan; the other of H. C. Harpending, Esq., of Dundee.
The funeral exercises were conducted at his late residence on Dungan street at 3 o'clock yesterday. The deceased was a man of more than ordinary business qualifications, and as an exemplary Christian, a safe adviser and a true friend he had few equals.
We deeply sympathize with the bereaved family, as we well know the broken tie has cast deep the shadows of sorrow; but why not look up and smile even in the midst of tears, for the summons that called the father, husband and friend gives to him a peaceful rest in the home of immortality.
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Died - at his home in this village on the 26th inst., Clinton C. Backus, in the 65th year of his age.
Mr. Backus was born at Freetown, county of Cortland in this state, January 18th, 1812. He became a resident of Canandaigua in 1864, and although but comparatively a few of the active years of his life were spent in our midst, yet he endeared himself to whomever he came in contact with. He has held several positions of trust and responsibility since he came among us, and whatever the work assigned him to do it was well, faithfully and uprightly executed.
A wife and three daughters are left with hearts bleeding, because the tender husband and loving father is no longer of the household. Two of the daughters are married, the oldest the wife of Hon. Hanford Struble, of Penn Yan; the other of H. C. Harpending, Esq., of Dundee.
The funeral exercises were conducted at his late residence on Dungan street at 3 o'clock yesterday. The deceased was a man of more than ordinary business qualifications, and as an exemplary Christian, a safe adviser and a true friend he had few equals.
We deeply sympathize with the bereaved family, as we well know the broken tie has cast deep the shadows of sorrow; but why not look up and smile even in the midst of tears, for the summons that called the father, husband and friend gives to him a peaceful rest in the home of immortality.
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