George Thompson Fairchild (1838-1901) was an American educator.
Fairchild was a child of Grandison Fairchild. He was born in northeast Ohio and went to Oberlin College (AB 1862, MA 1865, and LLD, honorary, 1893). Grandison Fairchild was an American reformer and one of the founders of Oberlin College. ... Students passing through the Oberlin Memorial Arch in front of Peters Hall on the Oberlin College campus Oberlin College is a small liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio. ...
Fairchild was a professor of English at State Agricultural College of Michigan in the 1860s and 70s. In 1879, he was appointed president of Agricultural College of Kansas. He served until 1897. Following his resignation from Kansas State, Fairchild became a professor of English and vice president at Berea College in Kentucky. Michigan State University Michigan State University is a university in East Lansing, Michigan near the state capital of Lansing. ... Kansas State University (sometimes referred to as K-State) is an institution of higher learning located in Manhattan, Kansas. ... Berea College is a small liberal arts work college in Berea, Kentucky, south of Lexington, Kentucky with a full-time enrollment of about 1500 students. ...
In 1863, Fairchild married Charoltte Pearly Halsted. They had five children:
Edwin Milton Fairchild (1865-1839) was a Unitarian minister and lecturer. ... David Fairchild in 1889, while employed at the United States Department of Agriculture David Grandison Fairchild (April 7, 1869 - August 6, 1954) was an American botanist and plant explorer. ...
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"Fairchild, George Thompson." American National Biography (1999). 7:681-682.
"Fairchild, George Thompson." National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. (1936). 25:265-266.
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