From that time, she was constantly before the public, speaking to large audiences in all parts of the country, temperance and women's suffrage generally being her theme,[1] but also social and political relations of society.

[2] Baxter served as president of Wayside Mission Hospital, located on the good ship Idaho, a side-wheel steamer built in 1860 for the Columbia River business.

[6] Her father, Abel E. Babcock, was an Adventist minister in the times when it required courage to preach an unpopular doctrine.

In childhood, she had few companions, for the Adventist doctrine was so unpopular and the persecution so pointed that even the children caught the spirit and were accustomed to tease her.

[11] In 1910, Beatrice published a collection of her mother's poems, Bits of Verse and Prose, By Marion B. Baxter (Lowman & Hanford Co., Seattle, 1910).

[12][9] Baxter, an intimate friend of Frances Willard,[13] became a prominent member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.

Roger S. Green and other public-spirited men of the city bought the ship and gave it for the benefit of those too poor to pay for hospital care.

"[18] In 1906, unable to continue active suffrage work in the King County Equality Club on account of illness, she was elected its honorary president.