Backus, Franklin T
lawyer, was born May 6, 1813, in Lee, Mass. He was elected prosecuting attorney of the county in 1841, and was sent to the Ohio house of representatives in 1846, and to the state senate in 1848. He was a delegate to the peace congress at Washington in 1861. He supported McClellan for president in 1864, and was a delegate to the national convention that met at Philadelphia in 1866 to form a new party. He died May 14, 1870, in Cleveland, Ohio.