Charles F. Baxter was born in Yates county, NY, son of Seth and Orpha Baxter, early 
settlers of Woodhull (Steuben Co, NY-AC), where they lived and died. Charles F. 
Baxter was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools. He was a farmer, 
and came to the farm Mrs. Baxter now owns, in 1847, where he lived until his 
death in 1879. In 1846 he married Amelia Jacobs, a native of Chautauqua county, 
NY, daughter of Leonard and Roxana (Butler) Jacobs, both natives of OTSEGO 
county, NY, who came to Woodhull in 1842, but spent the last thirty years of 
their life in Jasper, where he died January 3, 1888, aged eighty-three years, 
and she, December 28, 1882, aged eighty-one years. He was a farmer and carpenter 
by occupation.

From "Landmarks of Steuben County" by Hon. Harlo Hakes 1896
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