BAXTER, WILLIAM ABRAM, whose connections with the agricultural interests of Cass County are important, is one of the leading farmers of this section. He was born on Bildmore Place, this county, where he still resides, September 18, 1887, a son of Hiram Bennett and Lydia Ellen (Crum) Baxter. The father was born in Jefferson County, Ind., September 22, 1840, and the mother in Morgan County, Ill., February 3, 1855. The father was a captain in the Civil war, and has been a farmer for many years, he with his son owning and operating 1,707 acres of land in Cass and Morgan counties. An extended sketch of Hiram Benentt Baxter is to be found elsewhere in this work.

William Abram Baxter attended the common schools of Cass County, following which he took a course in the Illinois College, and then as his inclinations were for an agricultural life, he joined his father in farming and has so continued, becoming an authority upon matters relating to his calling. He and his father specialize upon feeding stock.

On October 18, 1913, Mr. Baxter was married to Willie Amelia Mitchell, at Ashland, Ill. Mrs. Baxter was born in Cass County, a daughter of William and Reasie (Skiles) Mitchell. Mr. Baxter has so devoted himself to his agricultural work that he has found no time for outside diversion, but he is an excellent type of sturdy, intelligent young manhood, and he and his kind are making Cass County what it is today.