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Author: S. J. Clarke (Publisher, 1922)

JOHN BAXTER.
    John Baxter, one of the foremost attorneys in Chicot county and for the past
five years a member of the Dermott bar, is a self-educated, self-made man, whose
advancement has been won through self-denial, untiring effort and persistency ot
purpose. He is one of Arkansas' native sons, his birth having occurred in Drew
county, four miles south of Monticello, on the 2d of June, 1887, and his parents
were Robert M. and Virginia (Sanderlin) Baxter, the former a native of Tennessee
and the latter of Georgia. The father is engaged in the lumber business at
Winnsboro, Louisiana. The mother died in November, 1887.

    John Baxter attended the Hinemon University School at Monticello, Arkansas,
after which he entered the law department of the State University and was
graduated from that institution on the 3d of June, 1912, being admitted to
practice before the supreme court on the same day. In order to secure his
tuition fees he engaged in teaching school. For two years after his graduation
he devoted his attention to educational work, and in 1914 began his professional
career, first locating at Hampton, Arkansas, where he remained for three years.
In 1917 he came to Dermott and in the trial or cases entrusted to his care has
won many favorable verdicts. Like all men who have achieved success in the best
sense of the term, he has been an indefatigable worker and his legal learning,
his analytical mind, the readiness with which he grasps the points in an
argument, all combine to make him one of the most capable lawyers who has ever
practiced in Dermott. He is well qualified to handle important litigation and
his clientele is a large one.

    On the first of November, 1917, Mr. Baxter was united in marriage to Miss
Edith Bailey of Little Rock, Arkansas, and they have many friends in Dermott.
They are Baptists in religious faith and helpfully interested in the work of the
church, Mr. Baxter being teacher of the men's Bible class. He has made good use
of his time, talents and opportunities and in his practice has displayed a
conscientious zeal and energy that have carried him steadily forward in his
profession, while his upright policy and adherence to high standards have won
for him the respect and confidence of his associates and also of the general
public.


Additional Comments:
Citation:
Centennial History of Arkansas
Volume II
Chicago-Little Rock: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
1922



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