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Knowles, M. D., John T. 739
Knox, Alexander
1024
Kohler, Edward F 1557
Kucker, L. S. 1038
LaBounty, Charles F 1918
LaFollette, Ransom S 1763
Lane, John M 1157
Langsford, John 1565
Langston, Jackson P. C.
1218
Lee, Bert S. 1666
Leedy, Joseph W. 766
Leeper, George 1590
Lehr, John Henry 1122
Levy, M.
1685
Lilly, Rev. Father John J 621
Lincoln, Azariah W. 1230
Linney, William Burts
1387
Lloyd, Charles Lee. 1929
Lloyd, Samuel Mack
1422
Love, Robert 1048
Love, D. V. S., Robert B. 1051
Love, Thomas B 784
Love, Col. Thomas
784
Lowe, M. D., H. A 1490
Luper, James E. 1810
MacElveny, Andrew W 1647
McAfee, Judge Charles 922
McCammon, John P 1351
McCarty, Luther Q 1056
McClernon, Hugh
1515
McCluer, James H 755
McCluer, John 756
McCollum, George A 826
Minto, Robert 1775
Mitchell, Harry H 901
Mitchell, Obadiah C 1192
Moomaw, H. M 1152
Moon, James A 1518
Moore, Anderson T 1916
Moore, George W 1105
1926
McKee, Roy 1379
McKerall, William 1000
McLinn, Albert S. 1452
McMaster, Cyrus J. 1426
McMaster, Walter Weir 1396
McMehen, John .
1165
McMehen, William
A
1158
Mc Millan, Otho D 958
McMurtry, James Gilmer 1353
McNabb, John T. 1488
McNeill, E. B.
1289
McQuiston, Brandt 1118
Mack, Clarence S 1087
Mack, Clyde B 1260
Mack, J. W. D. L. F 458
Mack, Rowan E. M. 996
Maddox, Elisha B. 1780
Magill, James G. .1860
Major, Will J. 1014
Malley, John P 1301
Martin, Harry E 1205
Mason, James H. 1717
Mason, John F 1831
Mason, Robert
T
1717
Massey, Frank
R
1914
Massey, Richard 1927
Maxwell, William M 1624
Mellon, Henry G. 919
Mercer, Carver O 1541
Meyer, B. E.
1372
Meyer, John F 1816
Miller, William
S
1797
Mills, Andrew D 1287
Ming, Emmett M. 1068
McConnell, John Aaron 1568
McConnell, Milton C. 1713
McCraw, Gabriel 1735
McCrory, James 1729
McCroskey, Charles W 1904
McCurdy, Thomas 1121
Mccutcheon, L. C. 847
Kissick, Robert F 1029
Kite, Robert B. 1575
Klingensmith, Peter 1862
McIlvin, James S. 1018
McIntire, Cyrus B. 830
McJimsey, Elmer E. E 1345
McKay, Elmer A
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.
Moore, Robert A. 986
Morckel, Charles W 1921
Morgan, Harry C. 1066
Morice, Leon
1635
Morton, William M.
1549
Moser, John A.
1329
Murry, Harvey
1223
Murray, Thomas 1404
Murphy, William
C.
1480
Murray, William Penn 1080
Murphy, Lawrence J.
744
Murphy, Michael J 1285
Nee, Daniel Martin 1241
Nelson, Marion A. 1183
Newbill, John Glenn 1433
Newton, Edward F
1360
Newton, Job
1786
Nichols, A. D. 763
Nichols, Capt. Danton H. 760
Nichols, George W.
883
Nichols, Matthias H 760
Niederhuth, George W
1135
Noland, George L
1450
O'Bryant, George W
1456
O'Bryant, James H. 973
O'Byrne, James
1178
Olendorf, George F
1270
O'Neal, Andrew J.
1694
O'Neal, George W. 1686
O'Neill, Rev. Father Francis. 622
O'Reilly, Rev. Father J. J
629
Ormsbee, M. D., James
I
725
Orr, W. J.
480
Orr, William J 866
Ott, Theodore 1146
Owen, Charles
J
1605
Owen, John S.
1878
Owen, Joseph L
1592
Owen, Stephen A. D 1596
Owens, Jerry W.
1919
Page, Judge Alfred. 1350
Patterson, M. D., Wm. P 746
Paxson, Ely
1016
Peak, M. D., Oscar I 1062
Pepperdine, George
467
Perkins, Leonard : 858
Perkins, Judge Wm. H 1339
Peterson, Harvey E. 953
Phelps, Hon. John S
1175
Phillips, Lorenzo 1039
Pickering, Charles 1893
Pickering, Clayton R. 1801
.
Pierce, M. D., Charles E.
1693
Pigg, Herbert W
1653
Pike, M. D., Columbus J.
1212
Pipkin, Lewis 1853
Pollack, Calvin 1545
Porter, Henry Webb 1654
Potter, M. D., Ambrose 1474
Potter, James
Elmer
1358
Potter, Nicholas 1479
Potter, W. C. 1368
Potter, W. H. F 878
Powell, William P
1311
Preston, L.
1659
Price, Isaac
1321
Price, Thomas
W
1867
Price, W. C.
444
Proserpi, Henry 1136
Prugger, August F 1507
Pursselley, M. D., Walter
1524
Putman, Mansel
1160
Quinn, John
1600
Quinn, James
1600
Race, Edward F. 1865
Ragsdale, Howard 1012
Ramsey, James A 1608
Ramsey, Robert L
979
Rathbone, B. F 1163
Rathbone, William H. 1468
Rathbun, Col. George S.
889
Rauch, Fred William 1022
Raum, Egmont 1493
Raymond, George E 1880
Redfearn, Jesse O 1851
Rebori, Louis L
1680
Reed, Samuel A.
1398
Reilly, James W 1211
Renshaw, Moses M. 1553
Rhodes, Clarence
1275
Rhodes, C. L 1256
Rhodes, Eugene J 1107
Rhodes, Jr., Eugene J 1263
Rhodes, Ira
1107
Ricketts, Lemuel C.
1002
Risser, Omer E 1190
Ritter, Aaron M. 1864
Ritter, David M
1832
Robberson. M. D., Edwin T.
718
Robberson, Walter B.
713
Roberts, John
1046
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.
Roberts, Prof. John R 1348
Robertson, Charles 1232
Robinson, David H 832
Robinson, Henry D. 1343
Roper, William Fry
1513
Rosback, John 1772
Rose, John W. 1277
Rose, Reuben R. 1684
Ross, Bennette. J.
804
Ross, David Edward.
Ross, J. B.
926
Ross, LaFayette A.
1248
Ross, M. D., Leonidas C.
1242
Roudebush, Marshall
959
Ruffin, J. B. 1114
Rule, Charles W 1577
Rullkoetter, William
1638
Rupprecht, George C.
1086
Russell, Columbus B.
1678
Ryan, Rev. Father James
625
Salts, Robert A. 1823
Sanders, Emiel 1434
Sanford, William
B
800
Sanford, Wyatt
801
Sartain, James
S
983
Scharff, Max
1180
Schofield, Albert L 1320
Schofield, Thomas
1143
Schreiber, William
H
1910
Scott, Andrew J.
868
Self, William
1773
Shackelford, John H. 1236
Sheedy, Mike
1269
916
Shepard, Edward M
728
Shepard, Harriett E.
732
Sherman, M. D., David U.
1662
Sheridan, Rev. Father J. M 636
Shumaker, George M.
754
Sidman, Wesley
1225
Sidman, Rev. Wm. D
1202
Sisk, John M
1616
Sjoberg, John
1486
Skelley, William W 1312
Small, George W.
1217
Smith, David
1282
Smith, Harrison Milton 1416
Smith, Isaac N 1777
Smith, James E 1084
Smith, James M. 810
Smith, M. D., John R
1280
Smith, Mitchell 1383
Smith, M. D., Onas 1390
Smith, Russell G. 1391
Smith, William F 1306
Smith, M. D., William M.
1234
Smith. William
1673
Snider, Otis Everett. 1438
Southworth, Marvin H 1724
Spandri, John 1072
Spencer, Edward A. 875
Spencer, George W 940
Spencer, James ]
888
Squibb, Elmer D. 1829
Squibb, James Caleb 1581
Stafford, Bertha 1758
Stafford, S. R. 1757
Stahl, Charles H. 1252
Stahl, William F.
1251
Staley, Weldon E. 1543
Stancill, Godfrey C
1266
Starks, Charles L 708
Steinert, John
A
1721
Stemmons, F. B
1173
Stephens, John G.
1742
Stephens, William M
1906
Steury, Rudolph 1615
Stewart, William R 1446
Stone, M. D., Murray C 727
Stoughton, James A
886
Studley, Joseph
1903
Stutzman, Frank P 1272
Tatlow, W. D 472
Tefft, M. D., J. E. 487
Tegarden, Benjamin F
1883
Terry, M. D., Norman F
714
Thompson, Abner D
:1458
Thompson, William
1547
Thurman, George W
1689
Tillman, Joseph A. M 1731
Tillman, Samuel T
1731
Tracy, Isaac
186
Trenary, Alvin B
1279
Trevitt, Claudius
E
1728
Triece, George
1035
Trogdon, John Parker
1504
Trogdon, William C.
1528
Tucker, Edward G.
1822
Turk, Joseph Henry 1030
Turner, Granville W.
1078
Turner, M. D., William L
1657
Underhill, John F 1730
Underwood, Flavius J.
1082
Underwood, John J
1814
Shelton, W. B.
1443
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.
Van Bibber, Alfred H. 1572
Van Bibber, James D. 1563
Vaughan, Judge James R 449-1413
Vestal, Charles W. 837
Vinton, Madison C ..
1112
Vogel, Rev. Father William 628
Waddell, James S 1637
Waddill, John S 446
WVadlow, Charles E 1466
Wadlow, Elijah G. 775
Wadlow, Elmer G.
774
Wadlow, John W 1454
Walker, James " 1392
Walker, Leonard 1400
Walker, Robt. H. 1754
Wallis, John
1870
Wood, James G. 816
816
Watson, Gilbert :
779
Watson, James 928
Watson, M. D., Lorenzo 813
Watson, William
R
1792
Watts, Henry 1181
Watts, James 812
Watts, James W
820
Wear, A. H 462
Wear, Sam M 1930
Weaver, Samuel 768
Weaver, Maj. Wm. M 768
Westmoreland, H. H. 1264
Whalen, Jr., Richard F 1326
Whaley, William W 1261
White, J. A. 972
Whitlock, Arthur L 1096
Whitlock, Lambert 1097
Whitlock, Thomas J 1096
Whitlock, Williamson P. 861
Wilder, Frederick C. 1025
Wiley, George P. 807
Wilhoit, Sidney Edwin 1268
Wilkerson, M. D., James M.
1462
Williams, Elwood A. 1019
Williams, Frank B. 1200
Williams, John W. 750
Williams, M. D., N. C. 1243
Williamson, John P. 1855
Willier, Thomas E 1913
Wingo, Irvin W. 1155
Winters, George F 1198
Wilson, Alfred H 914
Wolf, David 1750
Wolf, Martin 1750
Wood, Albert 1204
Walsh, James
T
1421
Washburn, Mason C. 1579
Wood, John
Woodson, James A
1126
Woodward, Jacob 1836
Woodward, Ransom B 1835
Woodruff, John T 473
Wooldridge, Edward W 1140
Wright, Foster P. 444
Wright, Marion D. 1603
Wrightsman, Timothy J 1003
Wygal, Frank 1201
Yancy, Charles S. 444
Yeakley, George 1491
Yeakley, John 1483
Yeakley, Thomas 1482
Young, Henry 1794
Young, Walter B 1710
Youngblood, James 747
Youngblood, Theodric B
748
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Jonathan Fairbanks
BIOGRAPHICAL-Continued
JONATHAN FAIRBANKS.
The name of Jonathan Fairbanks recalls the history of the public school system with which he has been identified for forty years and the successful development of which is due largely to his untiring efforts and capable ad- ministration as superintendent. A man of enlightened views, he has been eminently practical while liberal in his consideration of the various proposi- tions which enter into the scheme of modern education. His pupils and those who have been under his general care as head of the schools are filling places of honor and trust in all the walks of life in this community and else- where. Some who have been prepared in these schools for prosecution of their studies in higher institutions of learning in a manner which has re- flected credit upon all concerned while the great majority whose period of tutelage ended with the completion of courses in the common schools have found themselves well equipped on entering the University of Life to con- tinue their progress in a maner which has given an insight into its lessons enabling them to reach attainments in which they are not far behind the graduates of many collèges.
Early in his career, "Professor" Fairbanks, as the head of the schools was called in the old days, made his mark as a disciplinarian. And, yet, he was gentle while firm. He insisted on strict observance of the rules and regulations prescribed for the students but he was so human in his treatment of dereliction that he won the good will as well as the esteem of all. No stickler for the text, he was insistent on a knowledge of the principles of the subject with the result that the pupils of the schools became imbued with the love of knowledge for its own sake rather than with the desire for credits, diplomas and degrees, the value of which is problematical. This disposition has been made manifest also to those who have come in contact with him in his capacity of county superintendent and the various associations of school teachers. Always a student, he will be found today reading scientific works embracing the latest discoveries of the world's specialists on all that relate to the problem of life in its various aspects. This is the habit of a
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life-time and he has always given freely of what he has received from what- ever source. In fact, he has regarded himself more as an instrument for the transmission of knowledge than as the possessor of it. He has been a. fellow student with his pupils and teachers, rather than a preceptor, just as in his discipline he appealed to the self-esteem and ambition of all to keep them from delinquency and attain high standards of deportment.
He is public spirited to a degree and has forgotten more about politics than has ever been learned by some who have attained leadership in differ- ent parties. He is progressive in his views on this subject, but as on all others, he has never permitted himself to become dogmatic in his expressions thereon. He is a modest, kindly man whose open friendship for all he meets has won him favor on every hand. He is a humanitarian, a student, a teacher, all that is implied in the fullest significance of these words.
The boys and girls of other days in Springfield have in the course of their lives and in the pursuit of knowledge met various teachers, professors and eminent specialists but the quiet unpretentious man who directed them early in the paths of learning holds a place in their memory and claims an influence on their careers, greater perhaps than that of any other with whom they have come in contact. The people at large, in view of the visible re- sults, are prone to believe that Jonathan Fairbanks is entitled to a niche in the local hall of fame which shall bear testimony for many years to his efficiency, general worthiness and the great popular esteem in which he is held by all classes of people in the city of Springfield, in Greene county, and wherever he has been known.
The man who has thus endeared himself to the people here, comes of one of the oldest New England families whose members have displayed singular talents and virtues wherever their lots have been cast in the great country to which they have assisted in bringing the blessings of civilization during a period of three hundred years. Hardy pioneers, they have been noted for patriotism, public spirit, devotion to the ideals of the republic and persistent application to tasks through which they sought the attainment of the higher ends of life. A well kept book of their genealogy brings the record of their lives in orderly precision and ample detail down to the present time showing that they have been prominent in each succeeding generation of people who in the proper conduct of business and the manifestation of care for the general welfare have led in the upbuilding of communities and the development of the country in various ways. A majority of them have followed the pursuits of agriculture returning thereto often after adventures in business which have not proven profitable, sustaining reverses with equa- nimity, and bravely beginning the reconstruction of their fortunes after the failures which so often come in the magical changes of American life for
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which none are so well prepared as those who are imbued with the spirit of the patriot pioneers which has been the making of the Great Republic.
Their work in this country was begun by an immigrant family the head of which is known in their genealogy as Jonathan Fairebank (Fairbank, Fairbanks), of Dedham, Massachusetts, a town which he helped to establish after coming to Boston from England in 1633. He came from Sowerby in the West Riding of Yorkshire. He was born prior to 1600. The family had an interesting history in the old country, mementoes of which are found among the heirlooms of the old Fairbanks home at Dedham, built in 1636, and now preserved as a memorial after having been continuously occupied by the builder and his lineal descendants longer than any other homestead in New England. The first Jonathan Fairbanks passed from the scene of pioneer activities to another life at Dedham in 1668. In the fifth generation another Jonathan Fairbanks was born at Holliston, Massachusetts, March 29, 1755. He was a soldier of the Revolution and died after a long and useful life at Sudbury, Massachusetts, February 28, 1840. One of his sons was Joseph Bradley Varnum Fairbanks, father of our Jonathan, who engaged in wool manufacturing at Andover, Massachusetts, and Fort Edwards, New York. With the assistance of two brothers, he built up an extensive busi- ness but when they were stocked up with a surplus they were bankrupted by a change in the tariff in 1833. Joseph Bradley Varnum Fairbanks mar- ried Miss Margaret Hadden in 1827. She was born in Scotland, February 25, 1803. They had three children, Jonathan, born in Andover, Massa- chusetts, January 7, 1828; James Dexter, born in Monroe, New York, August 19, 1830; Joseph Bradley Varnum, Jr., born in Sudbury, Massachusetts,
August 29, 1833. The head of the family never recovered from the shock of his disastrous failure in business. He died at Monroe, New York, shortly afterward, May 20, 1833. The youngest child followed soon after- ward, October 31, 1833. The mother had taken him to Boston, where she had gone to live, the two elder boys being placed in charge of relatives. The family had thus been reduced from affluence to poverty and broken up in a very short time. The widow made her home in Boston for a number of years and afterward moved to Worcester, Massachusetts, where she died October 19, 1865.
Jonathan Fairbanks was just five years old when with his younger brother, James Dexter, he went to live with James Quinn and his wife, an aunt of the boys. Beginning to learn the hardships of country life at this tender age, he mastered all the details of the work so thoroughly that his relatives parted with him reluctantly when the time came for him to leave the farm at the age of nineteen. He had up to that time received no com- pensation for his labor except his board and clothes and the privileges of the district school, taking advantage of the meager advantages thus afforded for
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obtaining an education with such earnestness that there was little left for him to learn there.
Realizing the necessity of seeking a betterment of his condition he struck out for himself with resolution. In starting away he passed through a field in which James Reilly, a nephew of his wife's husband was working. "Where be y' going 'Jonton,'" said the Irish lad. "To look for a job." "But y' have no moneys, here's a 'sovron' for you.'"
The gift was accepted in proper spirit, for the boys were somewhat of comrades. It was the first money Jonathan Fairbanks had ever received and he took it with the intention of returning it, although he had spent all the years of his young life in labor on the farm which Reilly was to inherit. Jonathan went to Boston, where he called on his mother and remained five days, after which he returned to the neighborhood in which he had been raised and went to work on the farm of another relative, Nelson Fairbanks, who paid him wages at the rate of ten dollars per month.
In the meantime James Dexter had left the Quinn farm after remaining there a short time and gone to Concord where he grew up, learning the painter's trade in shops where he was under the tutelage of skilled work- men and became an expert, afterward making his mark in the business. He was wounded while serving a second term as a veteran volunteer in the Civil war and died October 19, 1864. He had married Olive Green, Novem- ber 2, 1855. They had five children. The widow moved to Worcester, Massachusetts, where she died June II, 1886.
Jonathan remained with his cousin, Nelson Fairbanks, a year, working eight months of the time and attending school four months. He had an excellent tutor here, who in addition to assisting Jonathan to rapid advance- ment, induced him to prepare for entrance to the academy at New Ipswich, an institution famous as a training school for teachers and preparing students for college. Hither the two journeyed together the next year, master and pupil, to complete their education in the same excellent school. Jonathan took with him fifty dollars, the savings from his first year of work as a wage earner. He had received eighty dollars for eight months' work and had spenty thirty dollars for clothing, books and other necessities. He was now twenty years of age. He remained at New Ipswich two years, working his way, and at the completion of his course there started out as a teacher. He was successful in his first application for a position. He spared no pains when he entered upon his work at Ashby. He taught night school four nights in the week for the benefit of ambitious students, specializing in arith- metic, penmanship and rhetoricals and preparation for a great exhibition at the end of the year. The people said that they had never had such a school and that the young tutor would never teach such another. They took it for granted that he was working for a reputation, when as a matter of fact his
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single purpose had been to do all he could for his pupils. But that first year's work opened the way to great opportunities. The president of the school board at Wilmington, Delaware, had written to his father-in-law at Ashby to send him the name of some young man whom he could recommend, some up-to-date teacher who could come down to Wilmington and "wake 'em up." Jonathan Fairbanks was mentioned in complimentary terms and correspondence led to his employment at Wilmington. He says, speaking of his experience at that place : "I spent four years at Wilmington. It was like a heaven on earth. I was told that if I would get married and settle down in Wilmington the people would build me a house. I formed lifetime friendships there and have corresponded with one of my pupils of those days for sixty years."
But he was persuaded to go west with his old teacher, George G. Parker, and so they went together to Ohio, as they had gone to attend the academy at New Ipswich. Mr. Parker stopped at Dayton but there was no school for his friend to be found at that place. Never dismayed Jonathan Fairbanks continued his quest and began seeking a country school. Finally, after meeting Mr. Parker again at Piqua, he was informed of an opening at St. Mary's and started over in company with Ardivan Rogers. Passing through the Ohio woods, a land of leaf and moonshine, he seemed to come under a mystical influence in which he received an impression of something unusual about to happen. He was in no desperate straits but repeated fail- ures to find employment at this time had been discouraging. He arrived in a canal town, St. Mary's, at 3:00 A. M. There he was informed that they wanted an assistant teacher. Without waiting to sleep after his long ride he called on the members of the board as soon as they were awake, with the result that he was engaged. Rogers was employed as principal and instituted an unusual division of the pupils. The boys of the school who worked on the canal part of the time had the name of being a hard lot. The people said they knew when school was let out, because they could hear for a distance of two miles the noise made by the boys as they came down stairs. One teacher after another had failed to restrain the disorder and it was said that nobody could discipline that school. Now the principal turned over the boys whom he could not handle, the larger ones in a body to his assistant, himself taking charge of the older girls while the smaller boys and girls were left in charge of lady teachers. The first thing Mr. Fair- banks did was to get well acquainted with his boys and explain to them the advantages of having order in the school, showing how it would promote their advancement and the interests of all concerned. The boys fell in with his ideas and he soon had them coming in and going out in orderly fashion with their arms crossed behind them. This kept their hands from meddling with those in front of them. After a couple of days there entered school a
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taciturn stubborn boy and there were knowing smiles when the teacher began to question Luther Bradley, who it was soon learned had been the leader in mischief in the school. Luther was cross-eyed and the teacher could not tell where he was looking, at him or the grinning boys. To the questions, have you studied this and have you studied that he answered a reticent "yes, sir" or "no, sir" without any particular respect in voice or manner. He was told to take his place and after a little was dismissed for recess with the rest of the boys. When they came back all entered in order with their arms crossed behind them, all except Luther, who despite instructions, came swinging his arms. The new teacher stepped up to him quickly. The boy was stocky and almost as large as the teacher, but the wiry little man grabbed the delinquent by the coat collar, gave him a jiu jitsu twist and the lad's feet flew out from under him. He went up in the air and bumped his head hard on the floor as he came down. It was a hard jolt but he was not hurt badly, but all the rebellion had been knocked out of him. The punishment was more severe than the teacher had intended. He merely meant to give the boy a good shaking but lost his hold on the coat collar with the result described. After helping Luther to his feet the teacher restored order and everything moved smoothly during the rest of the day.
That evening some one on the street who had heard of the occurrence, asked one of the reputed tough boys how they were getting along with the new teacher. "I dunno, he don't punish, he kills 'em."
Mr. Fairbanks never had to "shake" another boy in that school. But the irrepressible Luther Bradley came in for it just one more time. Passing along in front of the class looking out of the corner of his eye, the teacher saw Luther drop a paper wad into his pocket. Quick as a flash he turned and grabbed Luther and shook him till his teeth chattered and the bones in his body seemed to be unjointed. Never again did Luther trouble the teacher, but on the contrary they became fast friends. At the end of the year, Mr. Fairbanks was offered fifty dollars a month to teach the school in the summer time but he had made an engagement to teach at the Piqua high school, an exclusive private institution. There he had for pupils fifty-seven fine boys and it was a pleasant and profitable year for all concerned. Then he returned to St. Mary's as principal of the schools. He remained there seven years, leaving behind him an enviable reputation when he resigned for the purpose of engaging in another business. He had acquired an interest in a new patent steam engine and was to put it on the market. The time was not propitious however. The Civil war had upset business throughout the country. Mr. Fairbanks then accepted an invitation to return to Piqua, where he remained teaching during the next five years. At the end of that time he received all kinds of offers to continue teaching. Almost any position in the public schools of Ohio was open to him. But he had other ideas.
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