Transcription contributed by Arne H Trelvik 18 September 2005

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WILLIAM R. BAXTER, son of James, was born Feb. 9, 1826. He was reared to farm pursuits and received only a meager education in the district schools. March 6, 1850, he was married to Miss Martha, a daughter of James and Catherine Harper, of Hamilton Co., Ohio, who has borne him one child, viz., Martha S. In 1855, he removed to the Sixteen-Mile Stand in Hamilton Co., Ohio, where he kept a general store and was Postmaster for ten years. In 1865, he returned to the old home farm, on which he has resided until the present. During the summer and fall of 1881, he erected an elegant residence in the village of Mason, which will be his retired home for the future. He and his estimable wife are members of the Presbyterian Church, with which he has been connected since 1855 or 1856; his wife, since childhood; since when he has been an Elder, and both he and his wife are much interested in matters pertaining to religion. Like his father, he is absolutely temperate in all things.