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Baxter, George A

educator, college president, author, was born July 22, 1771, in Rockingham county, Va. In 1829 he became president of Washington college; in 1832 he was inaugurated professor of theology in the Union Theological seminary; and in 1835 was chosen president of the Hampden Sidney college.

He is the author of Abolition of Slavery; Parity; and the Scriptural Order of Christian Ministry. He died April 14, 1841.

Baxter, Henry

soldier, diplomatist, was born Sept. 8, 1821, in Sidney Plaine, N. Y. During the civil war he was made lieutenant-colonel of the seventh Michigan infantry, and in 1866 was appointed minister resident to Honduras.

Baxter, Horace Henry

railroad builder, was born Jan. 18, 1818, in Saxtons' River, Vt. He built the Cleveland, Norwalk and Toledo railroad. At the outbreak of the civil war he attended the peace congress as a delegate from Vermont, and when that meeting failed of its object he became adjutant-general of Vermont. He died Feb. 17, 1884, in New York city.

Baxter, Lydia

hymn-writer, poet, was born Sept. 2, 1809, in Petersburg, N. Y. She is the author of Gems by the Wayside, a collection of poems, and the hymn, The Gates Ajar. She died Jan. 23, 1874, in New York city.

Baxter, Portus

merchant, legislator, congressman, was born in Brownington, Vt. He was elected a representative from Vermont to the thirty-seventh, thirty-eighth and thirty-ninth congresses; was also a delegate to the Philadelphia Loyalists' convention of 1866. He died March 4, 1868, in Washington, D. C.

Baxter, Sylvester

journalist, author, was born in 1850 in Massachusetts. He is a journalist of Boston, prominent in exploiting the Metropolitan park system, and is the author of The Cruise of a Land Yacht, a Boy's Book of Mexican Travel.

Baxter, William

clergyman, author, was born in 1823, in England. He is a clergyman of Cincinnati, whose War Lyrics as originally published in Harper's Weekly were once widely popular. He is the author of The Loyal West in the Times of the Rebellion; Pea Ridge and Prairie Grove, or Scenes and Incidents of the War in Arkansas.

Baxter, William M

lawyer, was born Aug. 30, 1850, in Alexander, S. C.

He is a prominent lawyer of Knoxville, Tenn., and in 1882 became general solicitor of the legal department of the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad company.

Bay, William V. N

congressman, was born in New York. Having become a citizen of Missouri he was elected a representative in congress from that state from 1849 to 1851.

Bayard, John

congressman. He was a delegate from Pennsylvania to the continental congress from 1785 to 1787.

Bayard, Richard H

lawyer, United States senator, was born in 1796 in Wilmington, Del. He was a senator in congress from Delaware from 1836 to 1839, and again from 1841 to 1845; and was appointed charge d'affaires to Belgium in 1850. He died March 4, 1868, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Bayard, Samuel

president of the Evansville National bank, was born in Vincennes, Ind. In the early part of the year 1873 he aided in organizing the German National bank of Evansville, of which he is at present a director and one of the largest stockholders. a