Person:Andrew Baxter (4)

!DEATH; DeKalb County, IN Index to Deaths.

A. J. Baxter 52 5-20-1898

!CENSUS; 1880 Soundex of Indiana; 1880; U. S. Census of Dekalb County, IN; Bitler Wilmington township; Allen County, IN Public Library.

Andrew J. Baxter 34 IN PA OH Helen M. 32 Naomi A. 10 Aurilla 8 Otmar V. 5 Jennie M. 32 sister

Andrew J. Baxter, attorney at law, Butler, IN was born in Franklin township, DeKalb County, Feb 18, 1846, a son of Andrew Baxter, a native of Armstrong Co, PA who lacated on the farm where he still resides March 5, 1840. Our subject is a self-made man; having few advantages he educated himself and subsequently taught twenty-three terms, still keeping up his studies. In the spring and summer of 1867 he studied medicine with Dr. Hoopingarner, but not liking the profession, abandoned it. He taught in Elkhart County, IN, and was so well liked that his services were engaged for a second yearat an increased salary. He was assisted by his wife, who also taught the following summer at Jefferson Center, and with her earnings bought books that her husband might further pursue the study of law, which he had already begun. When his eyes tired from reading she read to him, proving herself to be, in the full acceptance of the term, a "helpmeet". In June, 1872, he opened an ofice in Hamilton and remained there til 1870, when he removed to Butler, where he has built up a lucrative practice. He is an active member of the DeKalb County Bar Association. In politics a staunch democrat. Mr Baxter was married Nov 26, 1867 to Helen Latson, daughter of James J. Latson, the well-known ex-Coroner of Auburn. To them have been born four children, but three of whom are living - Naomi, Aurilla and Otmar V.