Jacob Baxter was speaker of the Legislature of Ontario

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 in 1887-1890 and served as Liberal

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 MLA for Haldimand from 1867 to 1898.

He was born in Bertie Township

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 in Welland County

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, Upper Canada

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 in 1832. He studied medicine, received the degree of M.D.

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 from the University of New York

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 and the Bellevue Hospital Medical College and set up a medical practice in Cayuga

Cayuga, Ontario

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. He also served as justice of the peace and surgeon for the local militia unit - 37th Haldimand Rifles. He is buried in the Riverside Cemetery, Cayuga, Ontario.