History of Milan, (Dutchess County) New York United States of America

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Biographies:

Truman Jay Backus, educator, was born in Milan, N.Y., Feb. 11, 1842; son of the Rev. Jay Spicer and Mercy (Williams) Backus, and a descendant of Isaac Backus. He was graduated from the University of Rochester in 1864; attended the Rochester theological seminary, 1864-'65, and was assistant secretary to the American Baptist Home Mission society, 1866-'67. He was professor of rhetoric and the English language at Vassar college, 1867-'83, and president of Packer Collegiate institute, Brooklyn, N.Y., from 1883. He was president of the Long Island state insane hospital. He received the degree LL.D, from Rochester in 1883; rewrote Shaw's "History of English Literature" and published "Great English Writers (1885); "Outlines of English Literature" (1887).

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Jane Marsh Parker, writer, was born in Milan, N.Y., June 16, 1836; daughter of the Rev. Joseph and Sarah (Adams) Marsh; granddaughter of Lemuel Marsh of Vergennes, Vt., and of Jonathan Adams of Sennett, Cayuga county, N.Y., and a descendant of Captain James Marsh of Kent, England, a royalist who was slain at Marsden Moor, 1644. Joseph Marsh was a Campbellite minister, who became a disciple of William Miller, and was a leader in the Second Advent movement, 1843-50. His daughter was educated in Rochester, N.Y., and in 1856 married George T. Parker, a lawyer of Rochester. She became a regular writer for many leading New York daily and weekly newspapers, both religious and secular. She is the author of: Toiling and Hoping, novel (1856); The Boy Missionary (1859); The Morgan Boys (1859); Losing the Way (1860); Under His Banquet (1862); Rochester, a Story Historical (1884); The Midnight Cry, a novel founded on the Millerite movement (1886); Life or S.F.B. Morse (1887); Papers Relating to the Genesee Country (1888), and historical articles for leading magazines.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor