When Levi Baxter was born on 7 July 1827, in New York, United States, his father, Joel Baxter, was 39 and his mother, Mary Polly Minard, was 39. He married Harriet Amelia Houck in 1855. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Walton, Delaware, New York, United States in 1880 and Tompkins, Delaware, New York, United States for about 10 years. He died in 1910, in New York, United States, at the age of 83.
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English: occupational name from Middle English baxter ‘baker’ (from Old English bæcestre ‘baker’, earlier ‘female baker’, the feminine equivalent of bæcere). Compare Baker .
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