FAIRBANKS, EDWARD T., son of Joseph P. and Almira TAYLOR FAIRBANKS, born May 12, 1836, graduated at Yale, class of 1859. After two years in Andover Theological seminary, and two and a half years abroad, he became acting pastor for one year at Chester, Vermont. On New Year's day, 1868, he was ordained pastor of the First Congregational church, St. Johnsbury Center. Six years later, January 30, 1874, he became pastor of the South church, St. Johnsbury, which position he held for twenty-eight and a half years. He is now librarian and director of the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum. 
 
 
 

Source:  Successful Vermonters, William H. Jeffrey, E. Burke, Vermont, The Historical Publishing Company, 1904, page 61.

Prepared by Tom Dunn January 2003