From Memorial and Genealogical Record of Dodge and Jefferson Counties, Wisconsin, publ. 
1894 - Page 146-147
 
L. L. FAIRCHILD.  He whose name heads this sketch is following a double line of industry and is 
not only successfully engaged in merchandising, but is also the efficient servant of "Uncle Sam" 
in the postoffice at Rolling Prairie, Wis.  He is a product of the State of New York, his birth 
occurring in Lewis County, August 21, 1827, a son of Liberty FAIRCHILD, a native of 
Connecticut, and grandson of David FAIRCHILD, who was born at Winsted, Conn.  The 
FAIRSHILDs originally came from England, and were among the earliest settlers of the Nutmeg 
State.  Liberty FAIRCHILD remained in the State of his birth until he attained the age of nineteen 
years, and took up his residence in Lewis County, N.Y., where he followed the carpenter and 
joiners' trade for some time, afterward engaging in dairy farming.  He was married there to Miss 
Dorothy MARKHAM, who was born at Middletown, Conn.  Mr. FAIRCHILD reared his family in 
Lewis County, and there spent the rest of his life.
 
While growing up, L. L. FAIRCHILD received excellent school advantages, and after finishing his 
education in the public schools he supplemented this with a three years' course in the Lowville 
Academy, after which he was engaged in teaching for about two years.  In the fall of 1856 he 
came to Wisconsin and was engaged in teaching in the winter of that year and the subsequent 
winter, and taught in the Beaver Dam school one year.    In 1860 he opened a mercantile 
establishment at Rolling Prairie, at first in a very small way, but he added to his stock from year to 
year, and in 1865 he also engaged in the general subscription business for newspapers, 
periodicals and magazines, and worked up an immense business in this line, and for five years 
did an annual business of $10,000.  At that time the competition became so strong that his profits 
began to materially decrease, and he began devoting the most of his attention to his mercantile 
pursuits.  In 1865 he was appointed deputy postmaster of Rolling Prairie, and served in this 
capacity for about fifteen years, during which time he has since held this office, which makes a 
period of twenty-four years that he has had charge of the office.  He was united in marriage, in 
Lewis County, N.Y., in 1851, to Miss Caroline A. SMITH, a native of Lewis County, where she 
was reared and educated.  Her father, Trumbull SMITH, was born in Connecticut and was one of 
triplets, who were named by Gen. George Washington, after himself and two of his most noted 
generals.  Mr. and Mrs. FAIRCHILD have two children living and lost two: Carrie is the wife of 
Fred B. HART, a successful business man of Colorado Springs, Col.; Rosie, who became the 
wife of C. S. CLIFFORD, of this county, is now a widow and resides with her parents at Rolling 
Prairie; Liberty T. grew to mature years, was a man of fine intelligence, excellent habits and 
character, and became express messenger for the American Express Company between 
Milwaukee and Berlin, and died in September 1877, at the untimely age of twenty-two years, and 
Ella May died at the age of seven years.  Mr. FAIRCHILD is a member of the Beaver Dam Lodge 
of the I.O.O.F., and in every relation in life has acquitted himself with dignity and credit, and as a 
natural sequence his friends are many and his enemies few.
 
Submitted by Carol