Fairchild family

For the nineteenth-century children's book by Mary Martha Sherwood, see The History of the Fairchild Family.

The Fairchild family has long roots in New England, United States. They descend from Thomas Fairchild who came from England in 1639 and settled in Stratford, Connecticut, a part of the fledgling New Haven Colony.

Notable members

Among the notable members of the family are:

Portrait of Elizabeth Nelson Fairchild, John Singer Sargent, 1887

Portrait of Sally Fairchild, John Singer Sargent, c. 1885-1887

• Blair Fairchild (1877–1933), a composer
• Cassius Fairchild (1829–1868), who served in the Wisconsin State Assembly and died of wounds received in the American Civil War.
• Charles Grandison Fairchild, who was President of Rollins College. Charles married Adelaide Frances Dean.
• David Fairchild, who was a distinguished American botanist. David married Marian Hubbard Bell, a daughter of Alexander Graham Bell
• Edward Henry Fairchild
• Edward T. Fairchild, 15th chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
• Fred Rogers Fairchild
• George Fairchild, who was President of Kansas State University. George was married to Charlotte Pearl Halsted
• Alexander Graham Fairchild, who was known as Graham or Sandy. Graham married Elva Whitman
• Grandison Fairchild (1792–1890), who married Nancy Harris in 1813
• Henry Fairchild, who was President of Berea College. Henry was married to Maria Ball Babbitt
• Henry Pratt Fairchild
• Jairus C. Fairchild (1801–1862), who was the first mayor of Madison, Wisconsin, and married Sally Blair
• James Fairchild, who was President of Oberlin College
• Lucia Fairchild Fuller (1872-1924), a painter, married Henry Brown Fuller
• Lucius Fairchild (1831–1896), Governor of Wisconsin, He married Frances Bull (b. 1846)
• Thomas E. Fairchild, Wisconsin Supreme Court justice and later chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Other descendants

Other descendants of Thomas Fairchild include:

• Muir Stephen Fairchild

Sources

• Fairchild Family History
• Fairchild, T. M.; Fairchild Filter, Sarah Ellen (1944). The Name and Family of Fairchild. Iowa City, Iowa: The Mercer Printing Company – via Internet Archive.