Son of Thomas L Backus and Rebecca Couch.
Resided in Cleveland, became an attorney, appointed Cleveland's first Police Prosecutor, later a Judge, and U. S. Representative. Famous for winning a case defending operators of the "Underground Railroad" for slaves at the time of the Civil War. Attorney and counsel for the principal railway companies. His "knowledge of law relating to corporations was unsurpassed". He left an endowment for the Franklin Thomas Backus School of Law at Western Reserve University. No children.
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Resided in Cleveland, became an attorney, appointed Cleveland's first Police Prosecutor, later a Judge, and U. S. Representative. Famous for winning a case defending operators of the "Underground Railroad" for slaves at the time of the Civil War. Attorney and counsel for the principal railway companies. His "knowledge of law relating to corporations was unsurpassed". He left an endowment for the Franklin Thomas Backus School of Law at Western Reserve University. No children.
Info provided by Backus Family History 47039629
Son of Thomas L Backus and Rebecca Couch.
Resided in Cleveland, became an attorney, appointed Cleveland's first Police Prosecutor, later a Judge, and U. S. Representative. Famous for winning a case defending operators of the "Underground Railroad" for slaves at the time of the Civil War. Attorney and counsel for the principal railway companies. His "knowledge of law relating to corporations was unsurpassed". He left an endowment for the Franklin Thomas Backus School of Law at Western Reserve University. No children.
Info provided by Backus Family History 47039629
Resided in Cleveland, became an attorney, appointed Cleveland's first Police Prosecutor, later a Judge, and U. S. Representative. Famous for winning a case defending operators of the "Underground Railroad" for slaves at the time of the Civil War. Attorney and counsel for the principal railway companies. His "knowledge of law relating to corporations was unsurpassed". He left an endowment for the Franklin Thomas Backus School of Law at Western Reserve University. No children.
Info provided by Backus Family History 47039629
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