Baxter, Joseph R.

BAXTER, LUDLOW

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Date: 11/17/2008 at 12:56:46

BAXTER, Joseph R.; Blacksmith and Wagon Maker; Sec. 10; P. O. Clyde; born in Washington CO., Penn., Oct. 1, 1835; he moved to Ohio with his father and learned the trade with his father. Enlisted in the Spring of 1861 in Co. B, 30th Ohio Vol. Inf. at the first call for three months; was in the 9th Army Corps under command of Gen. Burnside, and of the Potomac Army; was in the battles of Second Bull Run, South Mountain, and Antietam; was under Gens. Cox and Rosecrans in West Virginia, and thence to Vicksburg with the 15th Army Corps, and with Gen. Sherman's march to the sea, and in all the principal battles of the campaign; received but one slight wound; was discharged with his regiment at the close of the war. Moved to Iowa in 1866. He married Martha LUDLOW in Muscatine Co., Iowa in 1868. She was born in Pennsylvania in 1837. They have six children - Earnest, Elsey, Mary, Josie, Tilla and John. He moved to this county in 1869. Has forty acres of land, valued at $1,600, with a good house, orchard and other good improvements. He carries on blacksmithing and wagon making. He has a good property, made by his energy at hard labor. Republican. ~ "The History of Jasper County" (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878), 598.