Alexander Gillespie Baxter (November 6, 1859 – August 30, 1934) was an American businessman and politician from New York.
Life
He was born on November 6, 1859, in Bloomingburg, Sullivan County, New York,[1] the son of James Brean Baxter (1837–1903) and Abigail Jane (Monell) Baxter (1834–1891). He attended the public schools and worked on the family farm. In 1878, he joined the United States Marine Corps, and served one year. On October 20, 1880, he married Sarah Elizabeth Teets (1857–1907), and they had three children.
He served as a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army during the Spanish–American War in 1898. After the war he became an undertaker in Newburgh, and later in Schenectady. He was a Coroner of Schenectady County for several terms. On May 10, 1908, he married Sarah Jane Atkinson. During the 1920s he built, and then ran, the Totem Post Camp Ground in Ballston Spa, New York, where he also went to live.[2]
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