Fairbanks Family Papers, 1798-1953 MSC 134-140

Introduction

The Fairbanks Family Papers consist of the miscellaneous papers of five generations of the family who founded E. & T. Fairbanks & Co., manufacturers of scales in St. Johnsbury, . Most of the collection relates to William Paddock Fairbanks (1840-1895), son of Joseph P. Fairbanks, and William’s son, Joseph (1881-1964). The papers include personal and business correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks, diaries, genealogy, postcards, newspaper clippings, and ephemera. The papers are housed in seven document boxes, two oversize folders, and two oversize volumes (7.5 linear feet). Philip Merrill Fairbanks (1913-1997), son of Joseph, gave the papers to the Vermont Historical Society in 1965. Use of the papers was restricted until Philip Fairbanks’ death in 1997.

Biographical Sketches

Erastus Fairbanks (1792-1864), the eldest son of Joseph and Phebe Paddock Fairbanks, was the first of the family to move to Vermont, leaving his Brimfield, Massachusetts, birthplace in 1811; the rest of the family followed in 1815. While Erastus operated a store in Barnet, Vermont, his father and brother, Thaddeus (1796-1886), built and operated a gristmill and sawmill, and built carriages in St. Johnsbury. In 1823 Thaddeus built an iron foundry and Erastus joined him to establish E. and T. Fairbanks, to manufacture stoves and plows. Thaddeus, an inventor and mechanic, perfected and patented a design for a platform scale in 1830 and three years later Erastus, Thaddeus, and their youngest brother, Joseph P. (1806-1855), formed E. & T. Fairbanks & Company to manufacture and sell the scales. Erastus and Joseph managed the business while Thaddeus provided the mechanical expertise. Because of the size of the scales and the relative remoteness of St. Johnsbury, the Fairbanks contracted with agents and mechanics who were given defined territories to sell, assemble, and repair the scales. The company was successful and the scales became renowned nationally and internationally. E. & T. Fairbanks & Company continued in business until 1916 when it was purchased by Fairbanks, Morse and Company of Cincinnati and Chicago (originally an agent of E. & T. Fairbanks & Company). Ownership has changed several times but scales continue to be made in St. Johnsbury (as of 1996).

While serving as president of E. & T. Fairbanks & Company, Erastus was also active in civic affairs and politics. A member of the Congregational Church in St. Johnsbury, he was president of the Vermont Domestic Missionary Society, and a member of the American Board of Foreign Missions, and was active in the temperance movement. He was elected to the legislature in 1836 and was chosen presidential elector in 1844 and 1848 for the Whig party. He was elected in 1852 and again in 1860.

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As one of six men to be granted a charter for the Connecticut and Passumpsic Railroad in 1835, Erastus supported the railroad project through its third charter and was named president when the company finally organized in 1846. He held that position until 1854.

Erastus Fairbanks married Lois Crossman (or Crosman) of Peacham, Vermont, in 1815 and they had nine children: Jane (1816-1852, m. Ephraim Jewett); George (1819- 1843); Horace (1820-1888); Charles (1821-1898); Julia (1824-1884, m. John H. Paddock); Franklin (1828-1895); Sarah (1831-1858); Emily (1833-1859, m. Charles Stone); Ellen (1836-1843, m. Constans Goodel).

Thaddeus Fairbanks was born in Brimfield, Massachusetts, in 1796 and moved to St. Johnsbury, Vermont, in 1815. He was an inventor with many patents including a cast iron stove and plow. In 1830 he and Erastus became interested in the raising and processing of hemp, and Thaddeus patented a hemp dresser (and was for a time manager of the St. Johnsbury Hemp Company). His most successful invention was the platform scale in 1830. He married Lucy Peck Barker in 1820 and they had a son, Henry (1918- 1830), and daughter, Charlotte (1837-1869, m. George Webber). Thaddeus Fairbanks died in 1886.

Joseph Paddock Fairbanks was born in 1806. He studied law from 1828 to 1833 and had a law practice in Vermont before joining his brothers in the platform scale business. He was elected to the legislature in 1845 and fought for improvements in education, temperance, and spoke out against slavery and against the Mexican War. Together with his brothers he founded St. Johnsbury Academy. He married Almira Taylor in 1845 and had two children: Edward Taylor (1836-1919), and William Paddock (1840-1895).

Horace Fairbanks (1820-1888), son of Erastus, became president of the E. & T. Fairbanks & Co. after his father’s death. He was governor of Vermont from 1876-1878. He gave the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum (1871) and Art Gallery (1873) as well as the North Congregational Church (1878) to the town of St. Johnsbury.

Edward Taylor Fairbanks (1836-1919) son of Joseph P., and a graduate of Yale University and Andover Theological Seminary, was pastor of the St. Johnsbury Center Church (1868-1874) and the South Congregational Church (1874-1902). He was librarian of the Athenaeum from 1902-1918. He is the author of The Town of St. Johnsbury, Vt., a review of one hundred and twenty five years.

William Paddock Fairbanks (1840-1895), brother of Edward Taylor Fairbanks, was secretary and treasurer of the E & T. Fairbanks &Co. until 1888 when he moved to . He married Rebecca Pike (1841-1928) in 1861. Their mansion, Brantview, built in 1884, is now part of St. Johnsbury Academy. The three children from the marriage were, Almira Taylor (1865-1902), Mabel (1871-1955), and Joseph (1881- 1964). Sometime after 1888 William divorced Rebecca and married Flora Sylvester. There were no children from this marriage.

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Joseph Fairbanks (1881-1964), the youngest child of William P. and Rebecca Fairbanks, was educated at St. Johnsbury Academy, Yale (class of 1903), and Harvard Law School (class of 1906). He practiced law in St. Johnsbury and, in 1917, volunteered for duty in World War I. He was given a lieutenant’s commission and promoted to rank of major, and eventually to colonel, serving in the Judge Advocate and War Departments. After his discharge in 1919, he became an attorney for the War Claims Board until 1920, and for the U.S. Shipping Board until 1923. He then entered private practice in Washington, D.C., where he and his family had resided since 1919. In 1908, Joseph married Luella Merrill, a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music. Their children were: Edward Joseph (1910-1979) and Philip Merrill (1913-1997).

Philip Merrill Fairbanks (1913-1997), donor of this collection, was born in St. Johnsbury and raised in Washington, D.C. He graduated from Yale (class of 1935) and the George Washington University Law School (class of 1938). Judge Fairbanks’ distinguished legal career culminated in his appointment to the Maryland Circuit Court where he served from 1973 until his retirement.

In addition to the genealogy folders, further genealogical information is in Folder 0.

Organization

The papers are organized in 10 series. Series II through VI correspond to the generations of the Fairbanks Family in St. Johnsbury, beginning with Joseph (1763- 1846). Members of each generation are represented by a sub series.

I. Genealogy (Fairbanks and Pike families)

II. 1st Generation Joseph Fairbanks (1763-1846), and Phebe Paddock (1760-1853)

III. 2nd Generation A. Erastus (1792-1864) and Lois Crosman (1792-1866) B. Thaddeus (1796-1886) and Lucy Peck Barker (1799-1866) C. Joseph Paddock Fairbanks (1806-1855) and Almira Taylor (1811-1883)

IV. 3rd Generation A. Sons of Erastus Fairbanks 1. George (1819-1843) 2. Horace (1820-1888) and Mary Elizabeth Taylor (1824-1901) 3. Charles (b. 1821) 4. Franklin (1828-1895) and Frances Clapp (1832-1895) B. Son of Thaddeus Fairbanks 1. Henry (1830-1918), Annie Noyes (1845-1872), and Ruthy Page (1852-1935)

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C. Sons of Joseph P Fairbanks 1. Edward Taylor Fairbanks (1836-1919) and Emma Taplin (1844- 1917) 2. William Paddock Fairbanks (1840-1895) and Rebecca Pike (1841-1928)

V. 4th Generation – children of William P. Fairbanks A. Joseph (1881-1964) and Luella Merrill (1878-1965) B. Laura Bartlett (1878-1965) and Charles H. Merrill (1845-1923) C. Merrill Family D. Mabel Fairbanks Robinson (b. 1871)

VI. 5th Generation – sons of Joseph Fairbanks 1. Edward Joseph (1910-1979) 2. Philip Merrill (1913-1997)

VII. E. & T. Fairbanks & Co.

VIII. St. Johnsbury

IX. Photographs

X. Miscellaneous

Scope and Content

The Fairbanks Family Papers consist of the miscellaneous papers of five generations of this prominent St. Johnsbury, Vermont, family, founders and owners of the E. & T. Fairbanks & Co. Scales and donors of The St. Johnsbury Athenaeum (public library), Fairbanks Museum, and the St. Johnsbury Academy. The papers include personal and business correspondence, Fairbanks and Pike family genealogy, photographs, scrapbooks, diaries, postcards, newspaper clippings, and ephemera, for the period 1798-1953.

Although the papers span five generations of the Fairbanks family, there are only a few letters and other miscellaneous items from the earliest period. Most of the collection consists of the papers of William P. Fairbanks, his wife, Rebecca Pike, and their son, Joseph, and his wife Luella Merrill. They are concentrated in the late 19th century, and early 20th century with special emphasis on the period around World War I. The papers from this period reveal the family’s affluence: they build and furnish an elegant St. Johnsbury estate, Brantview, their sons are educated at prestigious private schools, and they enjoy a leisurely fin de siecle grand tour.

Among the earliest correspondence in the collection is a letter to Joseph P. Fairbanks from his father in 1834, and letters from his brother Erastus in 1845, during the time Joseph was in the Vermont Legislature. In a series of letters between 1847 and 1851,

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Horace Eaton, Vermont’s Governor and former Superintendent of Common Schools, discusses education issues with Joseph, a champion of public schools.

Edward T. Fairbanks (1836-1919) is represented in the papers in a series of witty and affectionate letters to his younger brother, “Willie” (William P. Fairbanks), when one, or both, was at private school or college between 1853 and 1865. A typescript transcription of the letters contains penciled annotations by William’s son, Joseph. Most of the letters are related to student life: Andover, Yale, and Heidelburg, but Edward also accompanied his father on an 1855 business trip to Chicago, soon after which, his father died. An 1859 graduate of Yale, Edward continued to collect memorabilia from his alma mater.

William P. and Rebecca Pike Fairbanks’ letters occupy several document boxes. Most of these are business letters to William as treasurer of the E. & T. Fairbanks Company, a position he held until he left St. Johnsbury in 1888 to become a partner in Fairbanks & Company in New York City. Glimpses of his personal life can be seen however, in a few letters to his family (in a letter to his wife he describes the 1885 entombment of President Ulysses S. Grant), and in his 1884 to 1888 letter copybooks. William’s copybook correspondence reveals the care he took in furnishing Brantview, his 1886 decision not to seek further political office, and his displeasure by 1888 with his business situation.

World War I shaped the life of Joseph Fairbanks and his family. Joseph left his St. Johnsbury law practice in 1917 to volunteer in the U.S. Army. After the war, he worked for the United States government and he and his family continued to live in Washington D.C. The collection includes many wartime (1917-1918) letters exchanged by Rebecca and Joseph, as well as correspondence between Joseph and Luella, prior to the family’s move from St. Johnsbury to Washington.

Joseph saved business letters and memos from the period 1917 to 1920 and continued to collect publications and clippings into the 1940s.

Although Philip Fairbanks (1913-1997) donated the collection to Vermont Historical Society, there are few of his papers, or those of his brother, Edward Joseph (1910- 1979) in the collection. What few papers there are date mostly from the time they were children.

Apart from William P. Fairbanks’ business letters, the collection has little about the E. & T. Fairbanks Co. Series VII includes an 1827 letter to Isaiah Ripley in Franconia, N.H. “to cast about thirty” from a pattern the sender enclosed; the letter is signed only “E. & T. Fairbanks.” There are several examples of company advertising from the 1860s, and miscellaneous papers from Joseph Fairbanks’ law firm in the early 1900s.

In addition to series VII, material related to St. Johnsbury and its institutions are scattered throughout the collection. Materials related to St. Johnsbury Academy can be

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The extensive collection of photographs includes family portraits, snapshots, stereoscopic views, daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, and postcards.

Photographs in Series IX include family portraits (1860s to 1920s); a photographic record of Joseph Fairbanks’ 1895 grand tour; informal snapshots of Joseph Fairbanks and his family from 1896-1920; 1929 interior and exterior views of Brantview, William P. and Rebecca Fairbanks’ St. Johnsbury estate; St. Johnsbury school views in the 1890s; and miscellaneous 1870s Vermont and New England stereoscopic views.

The series also includes a ca. 1914 photograph of the superintendents, foremen, and officers of the E. & T. Fairbanks & Co. and several stereoscopic views of the company’s January 21, 1876 fire.

Additional photographs of Joseph and Luella Fairbanks at the time of World War I can be found with their scrapbooks (MSC 137:6-11, 138:43-44, and 139:1-5).

Joseph and Luella Fairbanks’ postcard collection (MSC 137:15-20) includes views of St. Johnsbury from 1913 to 1918, and Vermont scenes from the same period.

Most of the identified daguerreotypes, all of which are located in MSC 140:26 and 27, are images of Fairbanks family members. Rebecca Pike Fairbanks, wife of William P. Fairbanks, her mother, Huldah Johnson Pike, and her grandmother, Rebecca Miner Pike (1773-1865) are also represented. A list of the daguerreotypes in the papers can be found in section IX of the inventory.

A tintype of a Civil War winter camp, ca 1860s, is located in FB27-1. The image may be the 12th Vt. at Wolf Run Shoals, winter, 1862-1863. The 12th Vermont was commanded by Asa Blunt, an employee of the E. & T. Fairbanks Co.

Related Collections

Related manuscript collections include: • Fairbanks Papers, 1815-1889. Doc 1-5 and Doc 95 These consist of records of the E. & T. Fairbanks Co., the correspondence of Erastus Fairbanks and a few papers of Thaddeus, Joseph, and • Erastus Fairbanks Letters, 1813-1866. Doc 169 Letters to Erastus Fairbanks from family and from business associates.

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Books include: • Yale, Allen. Ingenious and Enterprising Mechanics: A Case Study of Industrialization in Rural Vermont, 1815-1900. University of Connecticut dissertation, 1995. VHS 974.31 Sa23y • Fairbanks, Edward T., Town of St. Johnsbury. Cowles, 1914. VHSR974.31Sa23f

For additional references, look in the card catalog under: Fairbanks E. & T. & Co., names of family members, and St. Johnsbury, Vermont.

• Photographs See VHS Portrait Index: Fairbanks Family See VHS Picture file: Fairbanks family (F-PO) St. Johnsbury

Inventory

I. Genealogy

MSC 134:1 Fairbanks family 2 ______, Memorial booklets, (Almira Taylor Fairbanks Thayer, 1811-1883, Mary Elizabeth Fairbanks, 1824-1901; Emma L. Taylor, 1827-1886; Sarah Fairbanks Stone, 1831-1909; Isabel Fairbanks Farwell, 1861-1891.) 3 Records of the Pike Family Association of America, 1902 and 1904; and Luther M. Pike, 1835-1914, obituary. 4 Pages from Pike family Bible, 1800-1900. 5 The Old Fairbanks House, abridged from Old Colonial Homes by A. L. Jones, 1894. MS Size D Holiday visitor, Dedham, Massachusetts, v. 1, #3, Dec. 1880. (Article about the Fairbanks house, 1636).

II. First Generation

A. Joseph Fairbanks (1763-1846) and Phebe Paddock Fairbanks (1760-1853) MSC 134:6 Letter to his son, Joseph P. Fairbanks, 1834. 7 Washington’s Farewell Address, Brookfield, [Massachusetts], Merriam & Co., 1812. Presentation copy, Joseph Fairbanks, May 10, 1812, Washington Benevolent Society of the County of Worcester…town of Brookfield…

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III. Second Generation, sons of Joseph Fairbanks

A. Erastus Fairbanks (1792-1864) MSC 134:8 Letters, 1839 and 1845

B. Thaddeus Fairbanks (1796-1886) MSC 134:9 Deed, Erastus and Thaddeus Fairbanks, 1832 10 Obituaries, 1886

C. Joseph P. Fairbanks (1806-1855) and Almira Taylor (1811-1883) MSC 134:11 Letters, 1845-1855 12 _____, from , 1847-51 13 Miscellaneous, 1832-47 14 Obituary, 1855 15 Almira Taylor Fairbanks, letters to her son William P. Fairbanks, 1858-59

IV. Third Generation, sons of Erastus, Thaddeus and Joseph P. Fairbanks

A. Sons of Erastus Fairbanks 1. George (1819-1848) MSC 134:16 Miscellaneous, 1838

2. Horace (1820-1888) MSC 134:17 Memorial booklet, 1888 18 Miscellaneous Vt. State publications, 1876-77 19 Empty envelopes

3. Charles (b. 1821) MSC 134:20 Correspondence with family, 1880-86

4. Franklin (1828-95) and Frances Clapp Fairbanks (1832-1895) MSC 134:21 Memorial booklet, 1896

B. Henry Fairbanks (1830-1918) son of Thaddeus Fairbanks MSC 134:22 Misc. letters (1840-45) 23 Correspondence re: flying machines, 1910-12 24 Obituary, 1918

C. Sons of Joseph P. Fairbanks

1. Edward Taylor Fairbanks (1836-1919) MSC 134:25 Letters to William P. Fairbanks, 1853-54 26 _____, 1855 27 _____, 1856 28 _____, Feb. – June, 1857

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MSC 134:29 _____, July – Dec.,1857 30 _____, Jan. – June, 1858 31 _____, July – Dec., 1858 32 _____, Feb. – Aug., 1859 33 _____, 1860-65 34 _____, transcripts, 1853-65 35 _____, undated 36 Letter to Joseph Fairbanks, 1918 37 South Church calendar, St. Johnsbury, Vermont, 1897 38 Essay, undated 39 Letters from Yale alumni, 1902-13 40 Yale University, class of 1859, miscellaneous 41 _____, miscellaneous undated 42 _____, Scroll and Key, 1858-1917 43 _____, clippings, 1880s-1915 44 Obituaries, 1919

2. William Paddock Fairbanks (1840-1895) MSC 134: 45 Letters, to his family, 1850-1885. 46 _____, from Almira M. Adams, 1887 47 _____, business, 1875-76 48 _____, _____, A, 1885 XMSC63:1 _____, _____, letter copybook, 1884-86 Pages missing: 46-49 (April 1885), 150-168 (Sept. Oct. 1885), 187- 193 (Dec. 1885), 308 and 319 (March 1886), and 498-499 (Nov. 1886). :2 _____, _____, _____1886-88 Pages missing: 47-56 (Jan.-March 1887), 89-95 (April 1887), and 216 (Oct. 1887). MSC 134:49 Letters, business, B, 1884 50 _____, _____, B, 1885 51 _____, _____, C, 1884-85 52 _____, _____, D, 1884-85 53 _____, _____, E, 1884-85 MSC 135:1 _____, _____, F, 1884 2 _____, _____, F, 1885 3 _____, _____, G, 1884-85 4 _____, _____, H, 1884-85 5 _____, _____, I, 1884-85 6 _____, _____, J-K, 1884-85 7 _____, _____, L, 1884-85 8 _____, _____, M, 1884 9 _____, _____, M, 1885 10 _____, _____, N, 1884-85 11 _____, _____, O-P, 1884-85 12 _____, _____, R, 1884-85

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MSC 135:13 _____, _____, S, 1884-85 14 _____, _____, T, 1884-85 15 _____, _____, W, 1884 16 _____, _____, W, 1885 17 _____, _____, Y, 1885 18 _____, _____, Jan. 1886 19 _____, _____, Feb. 1886 20 _____, _____, March 1886 21 _____, _____, April 1886 22 _____, _____, May 1886 23 _____, _____, June 1886 24 _____, _____, July 1886 25 _____, _____, Aug. 1886 26 _____, _____, Sept. 1886 27 _____, _____, Oct. 1886 28 _____, _____, Nov. 1886 29 _____, _____, Dec. 1886 30 _____, _____, fragments, 1886 31 _____, _____, B, Jan.-May 1887 32 _____, _____, B, June 1887-Jan. 1888 33 _____, _____, C-D, 1887 34 _____, _____, F, 1887-88 35 _____, _____, G-H, 1887-88 36 _____, _____, M-N, 1887-88 37 _____, _____, P, 1887-88 38 _____, _____, R, 1887 39 _____, _____, S-T, 1887 40 _____, _____, W, 1887-88 41 Commission, Colonel, Vt. National Guard, 1884 MS Size D _____, Denver National Mining and Industrial Exposition, 1883. Appointment to represent the State at the New Orleans Exposition, 1884. Arbor Day Proclamation, 1885. MSC 135:42 House furnishing estimate, 1884 43 St. Johnsbury Petroleum Co., 1865-66 44 Miscellany found in his Bible MS Size C Map of Woodlawn Cemetery, New York City, 1928. (WPF buried, Dec. 5, 1895.) MSC 135:45 Miscellaneous, 1850-1880

3. Rebecca Pike Fairbanks, (1841-1921), wife of WPF MSC 135:46 Diary, July, 1900 47 Letters, to Joseph and Luella Aug.-Oct. 1917 48 _____, _____, Nov.-Dec. 1917 49 _____, _____, Jan.-Sept. 1918 50 _____, _____, Oct.-Dec. 1918

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MSC 135:51 _____, _____, 1918? 52 _____, to Joseph, 1920s MSC 136:1 Letters, to RPF, 1900-1918 2 Contents of box, letters, 1837 and 1863 3 _____, greeting cards, undated 4 _____, compositions, 1850s 5 _____, St. Johnsbury Academy, 1856-58 6 Newspaper clippings, Caledonian, 1858-60 7 _____, The World, N.Y., July 1860 8 _____, miscellaneous, ca. 1860 9 _____, stories, undated 10 _____, undated 11 Daniel Pike, Revolutionary War service (great-great-grandfather of RPF), 1906

V. Fourth Generation, children of William P. Fairbanks

A. Joseph (1881-1964) and Luella Merrill Fairbanks (1878-1965) MSC 136:12 Biographical, 1917-1923 13 Diaries, 1897 and 1900 14 _____, Dec. 1906-May 1907 15 Letters, to his family, 1900 16 _____, to Luella, 1916-17 17 Postcards, to his family, 1917 18 Letters, to Luella, 1919 19 _____, _____, fragments 1919 20 _____, _____, 1920 21 _____, to him, 1881-86 22 _____, _____, 1902-1906 23 _____, _____, 1907 24 _____, _____, 1908 25 _____, _____, 1915-16 26 _____, _____, Aug.-Sept. 1917 27 _____, _____, Oct. 1917 28 _____, _____, Nov. 1917 29 _____, _____, Dec. 1917 30 _____, _____, Jan.-April 1918 31 _____, _____, May 1918-July 1919 32 _____, _____, business, April 1917 33 _____, _____, _____, May-June 1917 34 _____, _____, _____, Army Reserve, 1917 35 _____, _____, _____, 1918 36 _____, _____, _____, 1919-20 37 _____, _____, miscellaneous, 1927 and 1935 38 _____, _____, miscellaneous, undated

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MSC 136:39 The Academy Student, St. Johnsbury Academy, Feb. 1898 and June 1899. 40 Yale University, diary Jan.-Aug. 1902 41 _____, essays 1901-1902 42 _____, commencement 1903 43 Military service, 1904 and 1905 44 Legal cases, 1906 45 _____, 1907 46 _____, Estate of Emily Fairbanks, 1909 47 Patent application, for bull staffs (tethering device), 1911 MSC 137:1 Legal cases 1913-14 2.1 _____, 1914-16 3 U.S. Presidential election, 1912 4 Thousand Islands (N.Y.) trip July, 1917 5 Sphinx Club, St. Johnsbury, Vt, 1917-23 6 Madison Barracks, N.Y., 1917 7 Plattsburgh, N.Y., clippings, 1917 8 Scrapbook, p. 1-10, 1917 9 _____, p. 11-20 _____ 10 _____, p. 21-26 _____ 11 _____, p. 27-28 _____ 12 _____, miscellaneous _____ 13 World War I, miscellaneous, 1917 MS Size C _____, clippings, 1917-18 MS Size D _____, miscellaneous _____ MSC 137:14 Selective Service, Regulations, 1917-18 15 _____, Act, report, 1917 16 _____, Act, 1918 17 _____, questionnaire, 1918 18 Conscription, typewritten ms. by Joseph Fairbanks, 1919 19 Conscription, Canada, 1918 20 _____, Great Britain, 1918 21 _____, convention, 1918 22 Draft board letters, (humorous), ca. 1917 23 U.S. Office of Provost Marshal, memos, Sept-Oct. 1917 24 U.S. War Dept., memos 1917-1920 25 U.S. Committee on Public Information, War Information Series nos. 1- 2, 4-9, 1917 26 U.S. Army War College, Confidential Pamphlets, 1917 27 Miscellaneous U.S. government publications, 1917-18 28 U.S. Committee on Public Information, Official Bulletin, August 1-10, 1918 29 _____, _____, August 12-20, 1918 30 _____, _____, August 21-30, 1918 31 U.S. Provost Marshal, memos, 1918 32 U.S. Secretary of War, Report, 1920

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MSC 137:33 U.S. Shipping Board, memos, 1921-23 MSC 138:1 Certificates, etc., 1904-19 2 Caledonia Fair Ground Co., stock, 1897 and 1911 3 Invitations, etc., 1896-1908 4 Poetry, 1909-18 5 St. Johnsbury Academy Scrapbook, 1932-38 6 Inventory, residence, Washington, D.C., ca. 1940 7 Ration books, etc., ca. 1940s 8 Yankee and the Scales, radio script about Erastus and Thaddeus Fairbanks, produced by The Du Pont Company, 1952 9 War Poems by Wendell Phillips Stafford, 1915, presentation copy, 1920 10 League of Nations pubs., 1918-19 11 Pomilio brothers, airplane photographs, 1918-19 12 Art museum catalogs, U.S., 1916-45 13 U.S. Presidential Inauguration, 1953 14 Postage Stamps, 1916 15 Post cards, St. Johnsbury, 1913-18 16 _____, Vermont 1909-16 17 _____, Maine, New Hampshire, ca. 1915 18 _____, Connecticut, Maine, New York, 1903-16 19 _____, U.S. 1909-18 20 _____, Canada, Europe, 1905-29 21 _____, holiday and unidentified, 1910-17 22 Newspaper clippings, ca. 1917-20 23 _____, ca. 1930s MS Size C _____, World War I, 1917-18 MS Size D Proclamation requiring registration of all males ages 21-23, 1917 MS 138:24 Maps, World War I, 1917-18 MS Size D Miscellaneous World War I material, 1917-18 MS 138:25 Vermont State Sunday, Valley Forge, April 5, 1936, and sesquicentennial… Vermont’s Admission to the Union, Washington, D.C., March 15, 1941. 26 Vermont publications, miscellaneous, 1907-17 27 Miscellaneous printed matter, 1916-45 28 Notes, undated 29 Miscellaneous, undated

B. Luella Merrill Fairbanks (1878-1965), wife of Joseph MSC 138:30 Diaries, 1908-12, and 1913-16 31 Letters, to Joseph, July-August 1917 32 _____, _____, September 1-15, 1917 33 ____, _____, September 18-30, 1917 34 _____, _____, October, 1917 35 _____, _____, July-August, 1919 36 _____, _____, undated

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MSC 138:37 _____, to miscellaneous, 1917-18 38 _____, from Marion Fairbanks Adams, 1917-18 39 _____, from miscellaneous, 1917-18 40 Scrapbook, 1917-18 41 _____, 1918 42 _____, 1919 43 _____, photographs, miscellaneous, ca. 1917-18 44 _____, _____, family, ca. 1917 MSC 139:1 Scrapbook, photographs, Madison Barracks, N.Y., 1917-18 2 _____, _____, family, 1918-19 3 _____, _____, miscellaneous, 1917-18 4 _____, _____, family, ca. 1917 5 _____, _____, _____ and negatives, 1917-18 6 Red Cross pamphlets, 1917 7 Christmas cards, 1918 8 _____, envelopes, 1918 9 Miscellaneous, 1908-35

C. Merrill Family MSC 139:10 Luella Merrill, letters to husband, 1865 11 Charles Henry Merrill, sermons, etc. 1887 and 1918 12 Laura and Charles Merrill, letters to Luella M. Fairbanks, December 1917-January 1919 13 Margaret Merrill, letters to Luella M. Fairbanks, 1918-20

D. Mabel Fairbanks Robinson (b. 1871), sister of Joseph MSC 139:14 Letters, to her mother, 1917-19 15 _____, to Joseph and Luella Fairbanks, 1917-18

VI. Fifth Generation (sons of Joseph and Luella Fairbanks)

A. Edward Joseph Fairbanks, (1910-79) MSC 139:16 Letters, from family, 1915-30 17 Essays, 1922 18 Miscellaneous, 1917-18

B. Philip Merrill Fairbanks (1913-1997) MSC 139:19 Letters, from family, 1918-29 20 Miscellaneous, 1930s

VII. E. & T. Fairbanks Scales & Co.

MSC 139:21 Letters and advertising, 1827 and 1860’s 22 Miscellaneous papers, 1874-1913

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VIII. St. Johnsbury, Vermont

MSC 139:23 Pamphlets 1853, 1870, and 1945 24 Hall, Fairbanks Co., I.R.S. license, 1865 25 St. Johnsbury Academy, history, 1943 (newspaper clipping) 26 North Congregational Church, history, 1841 and organ service program, Sept. 24, 1922 MSC 139:27 South Congregational Church, history, 1864 28 Miscellaneous printed matter, 1912-31

IX. Photographs

MSC 139:29 Erastus, Thaddeus, and Joseph Fairbanks, undated FB-27 Tintype, Civil War winter camp, ca. 1862, 12 Vt. Volunteers? 30 Edward T. Fairbanks, undated 31 William P. and Rebecca P. Fairbanks, undated 32 RPF’s album, family, ca. 1860 33 _____, Marion Fairbanks, 1885-89 34 _____, Isabel Fairbanks and Albert Farwell, ca. 1889 35 _____, WPF and RPF, family, ca. 1890 36 _____, identified, non-family 1870s-80s 37 _____, unidentified people, 1870s-80s 38 European tour, Kaiser Wilhelm II, 1895 39 _____, Belgium, Berlin, Gibraltar, Holland, 1895 40 _____, England: Canterbury, Chatsworth, Hampton Court, 1895 41 _____, _____, Kenilworth, Lincoln, London, 1895 42 _____, _____, Oxford, Salisbury, Windsor, and Dryburgh, Scotland, 1895 43 _____, France: Fontainbleau, Nimes, Paris, 1895 44 _____, France: Rouen, Versailles, 1895 45 _____, Italy: Mt. Vesuvius, Paestum, 1895 46 _____, _____, Rome, Venice, 1895 47 _____, Spain: Alhambra, 1895 49 _____, _____, Ronda, Seville, 1895 MSC 140:1 European tour, Tangiers, Morocco, 1895 2 _____, miscellaneous, 1895 3 Yale alumni, ca. 1830s 4 Marion Fairbanks, undated 5 Yale Alumni, class of 1901, (friends of Joseph Fairbanks, Yale, 1903) 6 Luella Fairbanks, ca. 1902 7 Joseph Fairbanks, National Guard, 1906 8 E. & T. Fairbanks, superintendents, foremen, and officers, ca. 1914 9 Joseph Fairbanks and family 1896-1923 MS Size C Law Division and Dept. of Claims, U.S. Shipping Board, 1922 FB-1 F-HIS-WWI, U.S. War Dept. Board of Contract Adjustment, 1919. MSC 140:10 People, identified, not family, undated

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11 _____, unidentified, undated MSC 140:12 Fairbanks House, Brimfield, Massachusetts, undated 13 Brantview, interior, 1929 14 _____, exterior, 1929 15 _____, gardens, 1929 16 St. Johnsbury, school students, 1890s 17 _____, miscellaneous, 1918 and undated MS Size D St. Johnsbury Academy, class 1896 Caledonia County Fair, undated MSC 140:18 Windsor, Vermont (?), undated 19 Unidentified places or not associated with the family, undated 20 Paintings, unidentified, undated 21 Stereoscopic views, E. & T. Fairbanks & Co. Works, fire January 21, 1876 22 _____, Portland & Ogdensburg R.R. Trestle, Pumpkin Hill, Danville, Vermont, ca. 1870 23 _____, Lake Memphremagog, Vermont, ca. 1870 24 _____, White Mountains, New Hampshire, ca. 1870 25 _____, unidentified interior, undated 26 Photos in a box, 1850s .1 Daguerreotype, Joseph P. Fairbanks (1806-55) and Almira Taylor Fairbanks (1811-1883), undated .2 _____, Joseph P. Fairbanks (1806-55), undated .3 _____, Rebecca Miner Pike (1773-1865), Rebecca Pike Fairbanks’, grandmother, undated .4 _____, _____, Ae 76 .5 _____, Huldah Johnson Pike (dates?), Rebecca Pike Fairbanks’ mother, undated .6 _____, Rebecca Pike Fairbanks (1841-1928) wife of Wm. P. Fairbanks, as a young woman, undated .7 Ambrotype, William P. Fairbanks (1840-1895) as a young boy, ca. 1850 .8 _____, _____, with his dog, undated 27 _____, _____ .1 Daguerreotype, Joseph P. Fairbanks (1806-1855) ? undated .2 _____, William P. Fairbanks (1840-95) ? undated .3 _____, William P. Fairbanks (1840-95) ? undated .4 _____, _____, ? _____, as a young man, undated .5 _____, unidentified young woman, undated .6 _____, unidentified man, undated .7 _____, unidentified boy, undated .8 _____, _____, undated .9 _____, _____, undated .10 _____, _____, undated (same child as .9 but different pose)

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X. Miscellaneous

MSC 140:26 Deed, Elihu Johnson, Ryegate, Vermont, 1798 27 Spanish deck of gypsy cards purchase in 1895, and a rebus using book titles, ca. 1903 28 Miscellaneous, 1880s

Priscilla Page December 2001

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