Jed S. Backman Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire
From: Barbara Gottlock - BGOTTLOC@ccsd.edu

Surname: BACKMAN
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915

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     JED S. BACKMAN, interior decorator and painter, residing on the Lake-
side farm at Derry, situated on the banks of Beaver Lake, Rockingham
County, N. H. , was born in Nova Scotia, September 29, 1852. He resided
in his native land until twelve years of age, at which time he went to Boston,
Mass., and thence, after a short residence, to Detroit, where he found em-
ployment in the Michigan Car Company's Works, and subsequently in the
carriage works. He then went to Chicago, where he was at the time of the
Great Fire in October, 1871. After the fire he returned east, settling in New
Haven, where he found employment as carriage painter, being thus occupied
for five years. From there he went to Brooklyn, N. Y., where he remained for
seventeen years, engaged in decorating and painting. He then went to Boston,
where he continued work at his trade. He was with the Boston & Bangor
Company several years and then engaged in business in Malden, Mass., a
suburb of Boston, In 1911, on account of the poor health of his son, he came
to Derry and took up his residence on his present farm, which he is carrying
on very successfully.
     Mr. Backman was married in Bridgeport, Conn. to Miss Louise C. O'Con-
ner, a representative of  an old family, connected with the Boughton Wil-
liams families of New York state. Mr. and Mrs. Backman have been the
parents of eight children, as follows: Charles C., a resident of Malden, Mass. ;
Frank Eugene, of Malden; Grace May, wife of H. E. Fowler, superintendent

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of schools at Shelton, Conn.; Nina Lowell, a graduate of the New Haven
Normal School and a teacher; and Dorothy Irene, a student at Pinkerton
Academy, Derry; Edward S., who died December 21, 1913, at Billings, Mont.,
and two others, Frederick and De Witt, who died in infancy. Edward S.
Backman, the son who is dead, was page of the Massachusetts House of
Representatives for eight years, during five years of  that time being the
Speaker's page. Later he was a member of the city council of Malden. While
living in Brooklyn, N. Y., Mr. led S. .Backman took an active interest in
politics. He is a member of Union Avenue Baptist Church, at Brooklyn, N. Y.

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