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Backus, Russel Benson

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1944-

Biographical History

Russel Benson Backus is a family historian in Virginia and is the grandson of Samuel Cordner.

Russel Benson Backus was born to Elmer Eugene and Gertrude Violet Cordner Backus. He attended Utah State University in Logan, Utah. Backus is involved in preserving the memory of his grandfather, Samuel Cordner.

Backus was raised in Utah and spent some time in Idaho but currently resides in Virginia.

Citation:
Find a Grave, via WWW, 11 December 2014 (Russell Backus was born to Elmer Eugene and Gertrude Violet Cordner Backus; currently resides in Idaho).

Newspapers.com, via WWW, 11 December 2014 (Russell Backus attended Utah State University in Logan, UT).

UPB files, 11 December 2014 (Russell Backus is the grandson of Samuel Cordner).

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Arthur Fowlke Marrott (1858-1901) and Selena Martha Stradling Marrott (1859-1945) – Pioneers of Orem, Utah, and St. Johns, Arizona

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197239236406]
Identifier: MSS 8914
Content Description This account of the lives of Arthur and Selena Marrott by Russel Backus draws on a family biography by their daughter, Harriet, while focusing on information from two pocket ledgers that were kept by Arthur. Among other things, Arthur's ledgers identify people in the community with whom the Marrotts cooperated as their farms were being developed on desert land in the area that is now Lindon and Orem, Utah. The paper tells about these settlers and illustrates the extent to which they relied...
Dates: 2016

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