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Baxter was in increasingly poor health in his later years, especially after an 1877 fall left him with a debilitating back injury. He was often bedridden, but continued to actively manage his investments until his death in New York City on
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from Grant's time as a resident of St. Louis, A. Sidney Baxter served on Grant's staff as a
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Baxter's family contributed to construction of the H. H. Baxter
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commission warehouse. He worked in Boston for two years and became a supervisor of employees as the warehouse's head
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area, and rode at the head of the regiment as it departed Vermont.
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Workingmen's Democracy: The Knights of Labor and American Politics
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A Catalogue of the Books in the H. H. Baxter Memorial Library
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