WABASHA COUNTY, MINNESOTA
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			HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY


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                   GATHERED FROM MATTER FURNISHED BY 
                       INTERVIEWS WITH OLD SETTLERS,
        COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND OTHER RECORDS, AND EXTRACTS FROM 
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                     SOURCES AS HAVE BEEN AVAILABLE. 

                                   ALSO A 

                        HISTORY OF WINONA COUNTY

                                  CHICAGO:
                      H. H. HILL & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS.
                                     1884





  Baxter, Hon. William S. came to this planet by the way of Sidney Plains, New York, on February 
 24, 1836. He was the second child of the numerous offspring of Charles A. and Maria (Bush) Baxter. 
 Both branches of the family were natives of New York State. Ere William had reached adult years, 
 death removed his parents, and he was taken into the family of his uncle, Jabin Bush, a wealthy 
 farmer and merchant of Tioga, Pennsylvania. In 1856 he came to Minnesota and spent a year in 
 Dodge county. Soon after engaged in the livery business in Rochester, Olmsted county. When the war 
 broke out in 1861 he promptly responded to Uncle Sam's call for volunteers and was enrolled as a 
 private in the 2d Minnesota Infantry. In April, 1862, disability compelled him to resign his office as 
 second lieutenant and return to more peaceful pursuits. Having disposed of his Rochester livery stable 
 in the meantime, he took the proceeds and purchased a farm in the township of Highland. A few 
 years since he came to Plainview to reside. He has recently filled acceptably the office of deputy 
 sheriff for the southernn towns of the county, and in 1875 sat as a representative in the state 
 legislature hall at St. Paul. He is a republican and a Royal Arch Mason. He married Helen Austin, a 
 native of Ohio, March 31, 1864. Mrs. Baxter died in 1879, leaving but one child, Susan M., surviving.