John Chester Backus (September 3, 1810 – April 8, 1884) was an American Presbyterian minister.
He also studied for part of a year at the Andover Theological Seminary, and afterwards removed to Princeton Seminary, where he took the full three years' course In December, 1835, while employed as Assistant Secretary of the Board of Domestic Missions of the Presbyterian Church, he was ordained as an evangelist by the Presbytery of New Brunswick; and on April 11, 1836, he was called to the pastorate of the 1st Presbyterian Church in Baltimore, Md.
He accepted the call, and was installed September 15, 1836, and in this charge he continued until his death, although relieved in 1875 at his own request from active duty.
He died at his residence in Baltimore, after a few weeks' illness, April 8, 1884, in his 74th year.
This article incorporates public domain material from the 1884 Yale Obituary Record.