Fairbanks family

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Fairbanks
Fairbank
Political, mercantile
Coat of Arms of Jonathan Fairbanks.svg
Coat of Arms of Jonathan Fairbanks
CountryUnited Kingdom
United States
Canada
Current regionUnited States
Canada
Place of origin Heptonstall, Halifax, West Yorkshire, England
Founded1633
Founder Jonathan Fairbanks
Seat Fairbanks House

The Fairbanks (Fairbank) family is a noted American and Canadian family of English origin. The family descends from colonist Jonathan Fairbanks, who emigrated to Boston, Massachusetts in 1633 with his family, settling at Dedham, Massachusetts three years later. [1] There he built the Fairbanks House, today the oldest surviving verified timber-frame house in the United States.

The Fairbanks family later became one of the Second Families of the United States with the election of Charles W. Fairbanks as the twent-sixth vice president of the United States in 1905. The Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska; Fairbanks, Alaska; Fairbanks, Minnesota; Fairbanks, Oregon; and Fairbanks Township, Michigan all take their names from him.

The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University is named after a member of the family, John King Fairbank. The American manufacturing company Fairbanks-Morse was founded by another member of the family, Thaddeus Fairbanks.

The following genealogical tree illustrates the links between the more notable family members: [1]

Family tree

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Fairbanks, Lorenzo Sayles (1897). Genealogy of the Fairbanks family in America, 1633-1897. Boston: American Printing and Engraving Company.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "The Fairbanks House: The House". The Fairbanks House. Retrieved July 24, 2021.
  3. "Fairbanks, Frank Latta". Cornell University Library. Cornell University. 1939. Retrieved July 22, 2021.
  4. "FAIRBANKS, CHARLES RUFUS". Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 7. 1988.
  5. Anon (1927). Obituary records of Yale graduates 1926-1927. Bulletin of Yale University (PDF). pp. 324–325.
  6. 1 2 Meyer, Horst; Cabrera, Blas; Michelson, Peter (2011). "William Martin Fairbank Sr" (PDF). Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences: 2–20.
  7. May, Gary. (1998). Hard oiler! : the story of Canadians' quest for oil at home and abroad. Dundurn. p. 98. ISBN   978-1-4597-1312-3. OCLC   1127560811.
  8. "The Legacy of Dick Fairbanks". Richard M. Fairbanks Foundation. Retrieved July 21, 2021.
  9. "Richard M. Fairbanks, III (February 10, 1941–February 6, 2013)". Yale College Class of '62 Obituaries. Yale College. 2013. Retrieved July 21, 2021.