Baxter, John
lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born March 5, 1819, in Rutherford county, N. C. In 1842 he was elected a representative in the state legislature; was a presidential elector in 1844 and 1848; was again in the legislature in 1846, and from 1852 to 1857, serving as speaker of the house in 1852. In 1857 he removed to Knoxville, Tenn.; in 1870 was a member of the state constitutional convention; and in 1877 was appointed United States circuit judge for the sixth judicial circuit. He died April 10, 1886, in Hot Springs, Ark.
BAXTER, KATHARINE SCHUYLER, author, was born Feb. 22, 1845, in Oswego, N. Y. She is a great-granddaughter of Major-General Philip Schuyler, of the revolutionary army; a member of the Daughters of the Cincinnati, Colonial Dames of America, and the American Authors' guild. She is the author of In Bamboo Lands; A God-Child of Washington; and other works.