Charles Newcomb Baxter, librarian of the Blackstone Memorial Library at Branford, was born February 6, 1879 in Quincy, Massachusetts, his parents being Charles Newcomb and Louise Bartlett (Carruth) Baxter. The father died in 1882 but the mother is still living, making her home in Southboro, Massachusetts.

Charles Newcomb Baxter attended the public Schools of his native city and afterward entered the Massachusetts Agricultural College, from which he was graduated with the degree of S. B. in 1898. He then entered Harvard and won the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1902. He was an assistant in the library of the Boston Athenaeum from 1903 until 1912 and since May of the latter year has been librarian of the Blackstone Memorial Library in Branford. Mr. Baxter is a member of the Harvard Club of Connecticut and the American and Connecticut Library Associations: also the New Haven Historical Genealogical Society and the New England Historical Genealogical Society. He also belongs to the Graduates' Club of New Haven.

On the 25th of March, 1913, he married Iva Georgiana Bishop, of Branford, and they have one daughter, Iva Georgiana Baxter.