James Baxter Biographical Sketch from Beers History of Warren County, Ohio
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Transcription contributed by Arne H Trelvik 22 August 2005

Sources:
The History of Warren County Ohio
Part V. Biographical Sketches
Deerfield Township
(Chicago, IL: W. H. Beers Co, 1882; reprint, Mt. Vernon, IN: Windmill Publications, 1992)

Page
960

JAMES BAXTER, retired farmer; P. O. Mason. The gentleman whose name heads this memoir is another of the well and favorably known citizens of Warren County. He was born on Pleasant Ridge, in Hamilton Co., Ohio, in the year 1798; he is a son of James and Jane Baxter, who were born in County Tyrone, Ireland, in which they were reared and married. At the close of the Revolutionary war, about 1790, they, with their two children, emigrated to America and settled in Hamilton County, at a time when Cincinnati was almost unknown. He was a tanner by trade, yet he owned a farm, which he carried on in connection with his other business. They were parents of eight children, two living, viz., James and John; the deceased are Mary, William, Andrew, Samuel, Margaret and Jane. At the time he settled in Ohio, the whole country was a dense and howling wilderness, which was overrun by murderous Indians and ravenous beasts of prey. After over thirty, years of toil in clearing up his home, he was overtaken by the last foe of man - death - Sept. 7, 1821. He was born in February, 1760; Jane Rogers, his wife, was born Dec. 7, 1766; they were married in County Tyrone, Ireland, Aug. 8, 1785; she departed this life Sept. 21, 1840. Our subject was reared on the farm, and in the subscription schools, to which he walked three and four miles; he received a meager education; the demands of labor kept the sturdy boys of the pioneers at the ax and plow, and among them a finished education was unknown; on the farm and in the tannery and distillery he labored for his father until of age. Oct. 5, 1820, he was married to Martha, a daughter of William and Elizabeth McIntire, of Hamilton Co., Ohio; for three years following his marriage, he resided in his native county, and in 1823 removed to Warren County and located where he now resides. To Mr. and Mrs. Baxter were born three children, one living, viz., William R.; the deceased are David, who died in 1865, and Eliza J., who departed this life in October, 1849. Mrs. Baxter died at her home in Deerfield Township Mr. Baxter's second marriage was celebrated with Mary, daughter of Jacob and Mary Le Fever, of Warren County; to them were born three children, two living, viz., Martha (Mrs. Clark), and Margaret (Mrs. Harper); Mary, deceased. Officially, Mr. Baxter has been prominently connected with the leading offices of the township, having served as Justice of the Peace for thirty-two consecutive years, Trustee for many years, and Clerk for two years; truly, he has been a representative man, and he has earned an enviable reputation by fearlessly discharging the required duties of each and every trust. Politically, he is a Democrat, and during his long life has voted with that party - since casting his first vote. Whenever the name of James Baxter was put on a ticket for office, it was seldom he had an opponent, as Republicans and Democrats combined at the polls to elect him. He has been successful during life, and all his business transactions have been discharged to the strictest letter of the moral and divine law; temperate in every habit, never indulging in liquor, profane language nor the use of tobacco in any form, the record of our subject is indeed an exceptional one, and is worthy a place on the pages of any history, and should be perpetuated and held up as a model for the young man of to-day to take pattern from. For sixty years, he has been connected with the Presbyterian Church, and for forty years an Elder in the same; a consistent and unassuming Christian gentleman, a man whose ways, whose thoughts and deeds are ever formed from the principles of truth and love for his fellow-man.


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