Sylvester Baxter was a Boston

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 area newspaper writer and urban planner. In 1893 he became the first secretary of the Massachusetts

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 Metropolitan Park Commission and along with Charles Eliot was a chief force in the development of the Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston

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. Born in West Yarmouth, Massachusetts

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, Baxter attended universities in Leipzig

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 and Berlin

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 in the 1870s before returning to Boston and becoming a writer for the Boston Herald

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. Baxter continued urban planning efforts into the 20th century. He also wrote for the Boston Evening Transcript

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, wrote poetry and published magazine essays. Baxter died in 1927 in San Juan, Puerto Rico

San Juan, Puerto Rico

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