Rutland

FAIRFIELD, Charles Telford

Encyclopedia Vermont Biography: A Series of Authentic Biographical Sketches 
of the Representative Men of Vermont and Sons of Vermont in Other States. 
Dodge. Burlington: Ullery Publishing Company, 1912, p 185

Charles Telford FAIRFIELD, Rutland [Rutland County, Vermont], editor and 
publisher, was born 06 September 1866 in Hillside, Michigan [should be 06 
July 1866 in Hillsdale, Hillsdale County, Michigan], son of former lieutenant 
governor Edmund Burke and Mary (BALDWIN) FAIRFIELD. Educated at University 
of Nebraska,* and Oberlin College, A. B. 1887. Publisher "Eaton Rapids 
Journal" [Eaton County, Michigan], 1887-1897; "North Adams Transcript" 
[Berkshire County, Massachusetts], 1897-1898; established "Rutland News" 
[Rutland County, Vermont], daily and weekly, in 1899, and since its editor. 
Republican. Congregationalist. Member of Masonic fraternity, lodge, 
chapter, commandery, and shrine; Knights of Pythias, Royal Arcanum, Modern 
Woodmen of America, and Knights of the Maccabees. In 1888 he [Charles 
Telford FAIRFIELD] married [Miss?] Anna WHITCOMB, of Morrison [Whiteside 
County], Illinois; they have two children: Whitcomb Burke and Janet. [* The 
family of Ed. FAIRFIELD was enumerated in the 1880 census of Lincoln, 
Lancaster County, Nebraska (third ward): Ed. B. FAIRFIELD, fifty-seven, 
chancellor of state university; his wife, M. B., age forty-two; and the 
following children: daughter M. B., twenty; Edmund M., eighteen; George, 
fifteen; Charles. T., fourteen (born in Michigan; father born West Virginia 
and mother born New York); John M., twelve; and son E. B., eight, born in 
Ohio.]

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