Transcription contributed by Arne H Trelvik 18 September 2005

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JOHN BAXTER, retired farmer; P. 0. Sixteen-Mile Stand, Hamilton Co. The gentleman whose name heads this sketch was born in Hamilton Co., Ohio, in the year 1800; he is a son of James Baxter; he was reared on the farm, and when age had developed his frame and toughened his muscles, in him was constituted the material so much needed to accomplish the slavish labor of clearing up and developing the resources of a new country. In 1826, he was married to Ruth, daughter of John Ludlow, of Hamilton Co., by whom he had four children, two living, viz., Andrew J. and Martha; the deceased are Susan J. and John. In 1830, he came to Warren County, in which he purchased the northeast quarter of Sec. 32, in Deerfield Township. Politically, he is a Democrat, and with the exception of one term, in which he served as Trustee, he has been identified with no office. He is a member of the Cumberland Presbtyerian [sic] Church, to which he has belonged for forty years, and is an exemplary, consistent Christian gentleman. Like his elder brother, James, he, too, is temperate, abhorring the use of liquors and profane language, and, though in former days he indulged in the use of tobacco, he abandoned its use, thus showing his strong moral control over the force of habit. He has been successful in life, and at present owns 140 acres of choice land, which are largely in cultivation and well improved. Mrs. Baxter departed this life Dec. 13, 1843, aged 36 years and 1 day; she was a member of the Presbyterian Church and an exemplary Christian woman. Mr. Baxter has remained true to his early vows, and the many long years that have separated him from the idol of his youth are gradually approaching a terminus; though his frame is bending under the weight of more than eighty years, he is mentally and physically well preserved, and bids fair to enjoy life to a ripe old age.