Background
William Baxter was born on July 6, 1820, in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, the son of Henry and Mary Baxter.
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William Baxter was born on July 6, 1820, in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, the son of Henry and Mary Baxter.
In 1828 young William came with his parents to Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, where he learned the tinner's trade and also prepared for college. In 1845 he graduated at Bethany College.
After a pastorate in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, William Baxter went south in 1848, serving as pastor at Port Gibson, Mississippi, and at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, conducting evangelistic services in various places, and for three years holding a professorship of belles-lettres at Newton College, Mississippi. In 1860 he became president of Arkansas College, in Fayetteville, Arkansas. His situation in the little college town was one of peculiar difficulty. Although he had now lived for twelve years in Mississippi and Louisiana, and had, part of the time, held slaves and managed a plantation, his convictions as to Union and antislavery were those of the North. He tried to live in peace with his neighbors, while making no secret of his convictions, and to keep his college in operation. It was an effort to do what was impossible; and it ended in 1863, when the college building was burned to the ground, the students were scattered, and he, with his family, was forced to leave the state.
Baxter's book, Pea Ridge and Prairie Grove, or Scenes and Incidents of the War in Arkansas (1864), is important as an authentic record of the experience of a Union man in one of the seceding states, and incidentally reveals its author as a person of character and independence.
For two years after the war Baxter lived in Cincinnati, Ohio, preaching in various places, and active in journalistic and social work. From 1865 to 1875 he was pastor of the Christian Church in Lisbon, Ohio. He died at New Castle, Pennsylvania, February 11, 1880. Besides Pea Ridge and Prairie Grove he was the author of poems, temperance addresses, and a Life of Elder Walter Scott (1874) which is valuable as a record of the early history of the Disciples.
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In early life William was a member of the Methodist Protestant Church, but when eighteen years old he joined the "Christian Church, " or "Disciples of Christ, " with whom he was actively associated for the rest of his life.
On March 7, 1854, William was married to Mrs. Fidelia (Pico) Vail, widow of a Mississippi planter but born in Massachusetts.
