BAXTER, Hector

BAXTER

Posted By: Karon Velau (email)
Date: 6/2/2021 at 22:08:23

Hector Baxter
born June 16, 1834, Scotland

Hector Baxter, a farmer of Maple Township, Ida County, was born in Argyleshire, Scotland, June 16, 1834, a son of John and Mary (McNeil) Baxter, natives also of that country, where they lived and died. They were members of prominent Scottish families, and were Presbyterians in their religious views.
Hector Baxter, our subject, was reared and educated in his native country, where he learned and followed the trade of shoemaker many years. In 1877 he left his native land for the United States, and, after landing in New York, purchased and improved 160 acres of wild land in Tama County, Iowa. He sold this land in 1881, and bought 320 acres in Ida County, all of which is now improved, with a good, two-story, eight-roomed house, 28 x 30 feet, a barn, 30 x 36 feet, and a tine grove and orchard. Mr. Baxter is here extensively engaged in farming and stock-raising, making a speciality of shorthorn cattle.
He was married at the age of twenty-five years to Miss Margaret, a daughter of John and Helen (Cockburn) Stuart, who were born, lived and died in Scotland. Mr. and Mrs. Baxter have had seven children, viz.: Nellie, wife of Dr. F. B. Warnock, a leading physician of Battle Creek; John and James, at home; William, in Nebraska; Mary, a successful teacher of Los Angeles, California; Hector M. and Stuart. Politically, Mr. Baxter affiliates with the Democratic Party, and is one of the solid and progressive men of Maple Town-
ship. Both he and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church.
Source: Biographical History of Crawford, Ida, and Sac Counties, Iowa, 1893, p.234