- Horace Fairbanks
Infobox Governor
name= Horace Fairbanks
caption=
order=36th
office= Governor of Vermont
term_start= 1876
term_end= 1878
lieutenant=Redfield Proctor
predecessor=Asahel Peck
successor=Redfield Proctor
birth_date= birth date|1820|3|21|df=y
birth_place=Barnet, Vermont
death_date= death date and age|1888|3|17|1820|3|21|df=y
death_place=New York
spouse= Mary E. Taylor
profession=industrialist /politician
party= Republican
footnotes=Horace Fairbanks (
21 March 1820 -17 March 1888 ) wasGovernor of Vermont from 1876 to 1878.He was born in
Barnet, Vermont , the third of nine children ofErastus Fairbanks (who had been a Republican Governor ofVermont ) and his wife Lois Crossman. He was educated in the county schools andPhillips Andover Academy . He became confidential clerk ofE. & T. Fairbanks & Co. at age twenty, eventually becoming partner and then president. He was manufacturer of the world’s first platform scale. [http://crm.cr.nps.gov/archive/25-05/25-05-04.pdf Saving America’sTreasures] ] He promoted the construction of a railway line from Portland to Ogdensburg via the White Mountain Notch, and became president of the Vermont division of the railroad, as well as president of the First National Bank ofSt. Johnsbury, Vermont .He married Mary E. Taylor on
9 August 1840 . They had three children.In 1871 he presented to St. Johnsbury the
St. Johnsbury Athenaeum , incorporating a freepublic library containing 8,000 volumes and anart gallery . He was a trustee of theUniversity of Vermont and Andover Seminary.He was elected Governor in 1876, serving a two-year term.
Fairbanks died in
New York .References
*Fairbanks, Lorenzo Sayles, "Genealogy of the Fairbanks Family in America 1633-1897", Boston, 1897.
* [http://www.rootsweb.com/~vermont/BioHoraceFAIRBANKS.html Portrait and biography]
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