The Biographical Dictionary of America/Baxter, Marion Babcock

​BAXTER, Marion Babcock, lecturer, was born at Litchfield, Mich., April 12, 1850, daughter of A.E. Babcock, an Adventist preacher. Her mother was a woman of rare gifts and marked Christian character. At twenty years of age she delivered her first public address at Jonesville, Mich. It attracted wide and favorable attention, and fixed her vocation as a lecturer. From that time she was constantly before the public, speaking to large audiences in all parts of the country, temperance generally being her theme. She became a prominent member of the women's Christian temperance union, and also of the national W.C.T.U. lecture bureau. In 1891 she was elected state president of the White Rose clubs of Michigan, a partisan organization of women, for the support of the Prohibition party. She has written several poems.