Surveying and civil engineering were his special delight, and he pressed on until he attained an admitted efficiency in those lines. In 1839, 1840 and 1841, he was engaged in the engineering corps of the Genesee Valley canal, and Western Division of the New York & Erie Railroad, occupying his time in the winters by teaching. In 1840 and 1841 in Friendship village, handling a large school successfully. In 1844 and 1845, he turned his attention to lumbering, spending those years with his father at St. Mary's, Pa. In 1853, he married Miss Julia Greene of Pawtucket, R. I. In 1854, he erected an extensive lumbering establishment for those days at Clarkesville, N. Y., on the lands of Ithel Stone, where he continued until 1857, when he removed to Warren County, Pa., and set up a lumbering establishment on Stone Hill. About 1866 he removed to Limestone township, afterwards Watson, where he had a farm and mill. He lived there until Oct. 7, 1886, when he removed to Warren to be nearer medical attendance. Some few years before he had been partially paralyzd. He apparently recovered from that attack, but his system finally gave way, and the end came peacefully early Saturday morning. He was laid to rest in Oakland cemetery, Warren, Pa.

Henry Baxter's life was one of intellect. Even after being overtaken with paralysis, he thought out a new system for measuring logs, and issued a pamphlet, which ought to have mended his fortunes and perhaps did. When physically almost unable to move, that throbbing brain kept on its wonted flow, and occasionally the palsied hand would move responsive to the laboring mind. I know not whether he professed religion or even "experienced religion"; no matter, Henry Baxter was religion itself. He adored the works of God and tried to improve the condition of his fellow men. His every instinct was noble, generous and true. An ambitious man with his brain power and learning would, by cunning, have gotten on the strong side politically, and taken the higher places. In intellect and true manhood he stood alone, and it is no disparagement to say, that in the qualities that go to make a noble, full-grown man, his like is not in Warren County."