Editing Warner Baxter (section)

==Early life==
Baxter was born on March 29, 1889,<ref>California Death Index and both WW1 and WW2 Draft Registration.{{cn|date=September 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/warner-baxter/ |title=Los Angeles Times Hollywood Star Walk - Warner Baxter |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=May 8, 1951 |access-date=May 4, 2017}}</ref> in Columbus, Ohio,<ref name=clac/> to Edwin F. Baxter, a cigar stand operator, and Jennie (Jane) B. Barrett.<ref>Ohio Births and Christenings, 1774–1973</ref> Baxter's father died before Warner was five, and he and his mother went to live with her brother. They later moved to New York City, where he became active in dramatics, both participating in school productions and attending plays. In 1898, the two moved to San Francisco, where he graduated from [[San Francisco Polytechnic High School|Polytechnic High School]]. The pair were temporarily displaced by the [[1906 San Francisco earthquake]], then returned to Columbus in 1908. After selling farm implements for a living, Baxter worked for four months as the partner of Dorothy Shoemaker in an act on the [[Keith Vaudeville Circuit]].<ref name="acsp">{{cite book|last1=Tibbetts|first1=John C.|last2=Welsh|first2=James M.|title=American Classic Screen Profiles|date=2010|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=9780810876774|pages=26–29|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LpcWzZfVEa4C&q=%22Warner+Baxter%22+actor&pg=PA26|access-date=11 February 2017|language=en}}</ref>