Baxter, Sylvester

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Sylvester Baxter

(6 February 1850 − 13 November 1927)

American journalist, publicist and poet, of Malden, Massachusetts, near Boston. Worked for the Boston Herald as a correspondent, including travels in Mexico and the American Southwest; later a prominent advocate for metropolitan parks in the Boston area. President of the Malden Branch of the Theosophical Society. Contributed "Apollonius and the Mahatmas" (read before the Malden Branch, October-November 1886) to The Path, and co-authored with W. Q. Judge, under the joint signature "S. B. J.", the series "Poetical Occultism" (from October 1886).


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Lifetime: 1850-1927
Shortly: American journalist, publicist and poet, of Malden, Massachusetts, near Boston. Worked for the Bos...