San Joaquin County Biographies
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Transcribed by: Linda Diane Jackson 10/6/2009
THOMAS F. BAXTER
Stockton owes much of its world-celebrity to the Holt Manufacturing Company, whose efficient, popular manager is Thomas F. Baxter, the president. He was born at Brookline, Mass., on November 1, 1869, and there attended the grammar and high schools. At the age of seventeen he secured a position with a banking firm in Boston, and after three years there, he became, when twenty years of age, treasurer of the Worcester, Nashua and Rochester Railroad. Three years in railroading satisfied his ambition for that field, and then he entered the Boston and New York banking firm of Messrs. Bond & Goodwin. From the start there, he was successful, both in inspiring his superiors with confidence in him, and in satisfying the patrons of the house with whom he dealt; and it is not surprising to find that in 1900 he was made a partner in the concern, and two years later he became senior partner. The banking house is one of the largest in the East, with many branches and connections elsewhere, including some on the Pacific Coast; and Mr. Baxter could hardly have had a better introduction to his present line of enterprise.
In 1913, then, with the prestige of a successful banker, Mr. Baxter came out to Stockton, as general manager of the Holt Manufacturing Company, and on the death of Benjamin Holt in 1921, he was made president of this now widely-known company. In January, 1920, he retired from active participation in banking, two years after he became a citizen of Stockton. He is still a director of the banking firm of Bond, Goodwin & Tucker, Inc., at San Francisco, with Pacific Coast branches, being chairman of the board, and he is also a director of the Stockton Savings and Loan Bank. He is vice-president of the Stockton Chamber of Commerce, and was active in all liberty bond drives; he is still especially interested in the Boy Scout movement, and donated Camp Baxter to the Boy Scouts for summer vacation purposes.
Mr. Baxter was married at Boston, in 1899, to Miss Mabel Smith, a native of Boston, by whom he has had two sons and one daughter, Thomas F., Philip N., and Ruth Baxter. Mr. Baxter belongs to the following clubs: Brookline Country Club, the Braeburn Country Club, the Minneapolis Club, the Peoria Country Club, the Pacific Union Club, the Burlingame Country Club, the Yosemite Club of Stockton, the Stockton Golf Club, the Stockton Country Club, the Stockton Progressive Business Club, the Brookline Elks and the Boston Press Club; is a Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner, holding membership in Aahmes Temple, Oakland. He has recently been elected president of the Chamber of Commerce.
History of
SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
With A
Biographical Review
of
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been
Identified with Its Growth and Development
from the Early Days to the Present
HISTORY BY
George H. Tinkham
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1923
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