Merced-Alameda County CA Archives Biographies.....Baxter, John Jerdine 1883 - 
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Author: John Outcalt (1925)

JOHN JERDINE BAXTER

   It is getting more and more uncommon in this day to find a man who has
remained on the home ranch, faithful to the responsibilities he took up as a
boy, and carrying on the work of his pioneer parents, who undertook to develop
barren land into acres of fruition for future posterity. And when we do find
such men, we know that their outstanding characteristics are reliability and a
steadfast "hewing to the line." J. J. Baxter was born on the ranch where he now
makes his home, January 28, 1883, the youngest child now living in the family of
James Campbell Baxter, pioneer rancher of Merced County. He received a good
education, attended the Oakland High School, and later was graduated from the
Oakland Polytechnic Business College in 1905.

   Mr. Baxter resided in Oakland until 1906, which year he returned to the home
ranch and worked for his brothers, D. A. and J. R. Baxter, and learned the
fundamentals of ranch life from practical experience. He started ranching on his
own responsibility in 1911 and has made a success of his chosen work in life,
and he feels that Merced County has much to offer the settler who chooses this
part of California in which to carry on development work. His ranch property now
consists of 700 acres, and embraces the old Baxter home, in the Appling
District, Merced County.

   The marriage of Mr. Baxter, which occurred September 25, 1907, at Florence,
Ore., united him with Miss Roberta Bond, born at Plainsburg, Merced County,
September 25, 1885, the only daughter of the late Rev. Lewis Robert Bond. She is
a graduate student of music under Prof. Z. M. Parvin. One child has blessed the
union of Mr. and Mrs. Baxter, Christine Margaret, born in Oakland, Cal., and a
student in the Le Grand High School, class 1925. Fraternally, Mr. Baxter is a
member of Merced Lodge No. 208, I. O. O. F., having joined that order in 1911;
he also belongs to the Fraternal Aid Union of Le Grand, and in line with his
ideas on cooperation, he is a member of the Le Grand Farm Bureau. In religious
belief the family are members of the Presbyterian church.


Additional Comments:
From:

HISTORY OF
MERCED COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
WITH A
Biographical Review
OF
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been
Identified with Its Growth and Development
from the Early Days to the Present

HISTORY BY
JOHN OUTCALT

ILLUSTRATED COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1925


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