Appointed botanist (1889) and agricultural explorer (1898) of U.S. Dept. of Agriculture and head of division of Foreign Plant Exploration; conducted (1895 et seq) researches for economic plants in Netherlands East Indies, South Sea Islands, Australia, South America, Egypt, Japan, China, and Persian Gulf; distributed (1906-07) 800 tung-oil trees to pioneer growers in U.S.; retired in 1935. His collection of tropical trees and plants is [in 1954] assembled in the Fairchild Tropical Garden at Coral Gables, Fla. Author of "The World Was My Garden". NCCN

Brother of ¤Edwin Milton Fairchild, educator.

He was born Nov. 7, 1865, in Lansing, Mich. He proposed visual instruction in ethics as a method for use in Sunday and public schools, which was first tried in 1898. He is the author of "The Function of the Church"; "Commandments Father Wisdom Taught the Child He Loved"; "The Educational Church Marriage Service"; and "Ethical Instruction in School and Church". [HE]

His wife, ¤Salome (Cutler) Fairchild, was a noted librarian. He was brother of ¤David Grandison Fairchild, botanist.

He built the Manhattan Croton Reservoir, now Central Park's Great Lawn

He was a six-term congressman from New York, 1907-1919, and chairman 1915-1924 of the C-T-R Company (Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company) -- later renamed IBM. wiki:

She was born in Dalton, Mass., June 21, 1855; daughter of Artemas H. and Lydia (Wakefield) Cutler, and granddaughter of Jonas Cutler. She was graduated from Mount Holyoke seminary in 1875, and was instructor in Latin in that institution, 1877-79. She held various important positions in the American library association from 1889. She was chairman of the committee in charge of the library exhibit at the World's Columbian exposition in 1893, and chairman of the committee on the" American Library Association Catalog Supplement" from 1894. She was made the vice-director of the New York state library school, Albany, N.Y., in 1889. The degree of B.L.S. was conferred upon her by the University of the state of New York in 1891. She was married July 1, 1897, to the ¤Rev. Edwin Milton Fairchild, lecturer for the educational church board. She is the author of "Home Libraries", and "Scientific Study of Philanthrophy", and editor of the "Catalog" of the A.L.A. Library. BDNA