118 THE CANADIAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY. Board in 1853 ; the following winter attended a course of lectures in the Medical Department of the University of New York, and in 1866, a course at the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, same city, receiving the degree of M..D. from both institutions. Dr. Baxter has been in practice in Cayuga for a quarter of a century, and enjoys a high reputation for skill, both as a physician and Surgeon, is surgeon to the County Jail, and is also Surgeon to the 37th Battalion Haldimand Rifles. He holds likewise the office of Justice of the Peace. At the formation of the union already mentioned in 1867, Dr. Baxter was elected the first representative to the Local Parliament from Haldimand, and has served his constituents so faithfully, that they still keep him there, he being re-elected for the fourth term in June, 1879. He had charge of the Bill which became a law, amending and consolidating the Acts relating to .the practice of medicine and surgery in the Province ; and rendered much assistance in securing the charter for the Canada Southern and Great Western Air Line Railways. passage of several local and other Bills, Dr. Baxter has been a life-long Reformer, and for eighteen or twenty years has been President of the Haldimand Reform Association, being a man of great influence in the party. He holds his religious connection with the Episcopal Church; is a man of excellent principles and correct habits, and is held in warm esteem, especially by people who know him best. January 24, 1866, Rose, daughter of Robert V. Griffith, who was Clerk of the Crown for Haldimand many years, was married to Dr. Baxter, and they have three children, Robert J acob, Susan Ellen, and Edwy Sutherland. Dr. Baxter has a partner in practice, a younger brother, Dr. Benjamin Baxter, a licentiate of the Ontario Medical Board, a graduate of the Buffalo Medical College, a gentleman of excellent standing in the profession, and has held the office of Reeve of the village. He secured the SUEGEO^-MAJOE AMOS S. BEISTOL, M.D., 'NAPANEK A MOS SAMUEL BRISTOL, son of Major Coleman and Catharine (Way) Bristol is a clescend-*-^- ant of one of the families that settled in Rhode Island about two hundred and thirty-five years ago. The Town of Bristol, in that State, was named after the progenitor of the family in that place. Descendants are now scattered all over the United States and Canada. One branch settled in Troy, New York, nearly a century and a half ago, the great-grandfather of our subject being a clergyman in that city, prior to the Revolution. A son of his, John Bristol, grandfather of Amos, was in Burgoyne's army when it was captured. At the close of the war this released pris-