The Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Representative Men of Chicago, Milwaukee and the World's Columbian Exposition

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BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY AND PORTRAIT GALLERY.
One of the originators of the Nashville Com¬ mercial Club, he was its president during 1889 and 1890, and is now (1892) president of the Me¬ chanics' Savings Bank and Trust Company, prob¬ ably one of the best and most favorably known institutions of its kind in the State of Tennessee. He is also president of the Farmers' Savings, Building and Loan Association of Nashville. As a director he is connected with several other well- known institutions, and is largely interested in Nashville real estate, and has been highly success¬ ful in his numerous undertakings.
He holds Republican views in matters political, but is by no means what is usually termed a poli¬ tician. He was nominated by acclamation on the first ballot for Governor of Tennessee by his own party in 1890. In that particular instance—and the occurrence is a rare one in the life of Lewis T. Baxter—he was defeated. He Is one of the Republican Commissioners from the State of Ten¬ nessee to the World's Columbian Exposition, a position for which his eminent abilities most ad¬ mirably qualify him.
In 1883, M^- Baxter was married to Miss Sadie
Evans, second daughter of Thomas W. Evans, Esq., of New York.    They have two children.
A member of the Episcopal Church, he is a man of broad views, and free from bigotry and charitable to all. He is possessed of much talent and a character the distinguishing traits of which are inflexible integrity, great activity and cease¬ less energy, and a determination incapable of wav¬ ering. Mr. Baxter Is one of the few^ men who foresaw, ten years ago, the almost immediate phe^ nomenal industrial awakening of the South, and had the sagacity to profit by it. To him is due, in a very large measure, the activity and apprecia¬ tion of values in the Nashville real-estate market. At a time when few had faith, he inspired confi¬ dence by investing largely. Mr. Baxter's mind, naturally comprehensive and well endowed, had the advantages of an academical and college training and discipline, which has been enriched by travel and extensive reading. His business achievements and mental and moral endowments, and his social standing, easily rank him with the first citizens of his State, few being better known and few more highly appreciated.
AXEL CHYTRAUS,
CHICAGO,  ILL.
THE subject of this sketch is a member of the Chicago bar, and a man of scholarly attain¬ ments, much ability, and uncompromising integ¬ rity. He was born in the Province of Wermland, Sweden, September 15, 1859. ^^ '^^ ^be son of Gustaf E. and Maria (Johnson) Chytraus. His father emigrated to the United States in 1869, and settled in Chicago. Here young Chytraus com¬ pleted his preliminary education, and in 1873, when a mere boy, commenced the study.of law in the office of Messrs. Howe & Russell, at that time prominent lawyers in Chicago. Upon attaining his majority, and while yet with this firm, he was admitted to the bar. He continued with Messrs. Howe & Russell until 1880. He subsequently entered the ofifice of Mr. Francis Lackner, a well known attorney, and there continued his legal studies, and some eighteen months thereafter en¬ tered into partnership with Mr. George F. Blanke, which partnership still continues.    This firm has
been successful from the start, and has built up a large practice and an honorable reputation, and is well known among the leading lawyers of Chicago.
Engaged in the general practice of his profes¬ sion, Mr. Chytraus does not confine himself to any particular court, for, as a matter of fact, he is well known in all, commanding the esteem and confi¬ dence of an extensive  clientage.
A member of the Masonic fraternity, he became a member of Garden City Lodge, No. 141, in. 1888, and is also a member of Oriental Consistory, A. F. and A. M. The sublime thirty-second degree was conferred upon him October 3, 1889. He is also prominently identified with the I. O. O. F., having held all the offices up to and including the Noble Grand of the First Swedish Lodge, I. O. O. F., of Chicago.
In politics, he is inclined to the Republican party, though he is independent to the extent that he prefers to vote for men and measures rather