| FAIRBANKS,
GOVERNOR HORACE, the second son of Erastus Fairbanks, was born in Barnet
in 1820. He became an active partner of the company in 1843, and finally
the financial manager of its extensive business. Its annual product he
saw grow from $50,000 to $3,000,000. He was from its inception identified
with the Portland & Ogdensburg railroad and strongly backed the enterprise
with his means, credit, and influence.
He was a delegate to the Republican national conventions
of 1864-'72, a presidential elector in 1868, a senator from Caledonia county
in 1869, and was elected governor of Vermont in 1876-'78. He was essentially
a humanitarian and a philanthropist. His greatest benefaction was the St.
Johnsbury Athenaeum, that splendid repository of literature and art.
Governor Horace Fairbanks died in New York in 1888.
Source:
Successful Vermonters, William H. Jeffrey, E. Burke, Vermont, The Historical
Publishing Company, 1904, page 120.
Prepared
by Tom Dunn, April 2006
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