The

Fairbanks Fairbanks is a home rule city and the borough seat of the Fairbanks North Star Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. Fairbanks is the largest city in the Interior region of Alaska and the second largest in the state. The 2020 Census put the po ...

( Fairbank) family is a noted American and Canadian family of English origin. The family descends from colonist

Jonathan Fairbanks Jonathan Fairbanks (1594 – December 5, 1668) was an English colonist born in Heptonstall, Halifax, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England who immigrated to New England in 1633. Around 1641 Fairbanks built the Fairbanks House in Dedham, ...

, who emigrated to

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in 1633 with his family, settling at

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three years later. There he built the Fairbanks House, today the oldest surviving verified timber-frame house in the United States. The Fairbanks family later became one of the Second Families of the United States with the election of

Charles W. Fairbanks Charles Warren Fairbanks (May 11, 1852 – June 4, 1918) was an American politician who served as a senator from Indiana from 1897 to 1905 and the 26th vice president of the United States from 1905 to 1909. He was also the Republican vice presid ...

as the twent-sixth vice president of the United States in 1905. The Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska;

Fairbanks, Alaska Fairbanks is a home rule city and the borough seat of the Fairbanks North Star Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. Fairbanks is the largest city in the Interior region of Alaska and the second largest in the state. The 2020 Census put the po ...

; Fairbanks, Minnesota;

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; and Fairbanks Township, Michigan all take their names from him. The

Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University is a post-graduate research center promoting the study of modern and contemporary China from a social science perspective. The center hosts and organizes academic activities, provides re ...

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is named after a member of the family,

John King Fairbank John King Fairbank (May 24, 1907 – September 14, 1991) was an American historian of China and United States–China relations. He taught at Harvard University from 1936 until his retirement in 1977. He is credited with building the field of Chi ...

. The American manufacturing company Fairbanks-Morse was founded by another member of the family, Thaddeus Fairbanks. The following genealogical tree illustrates the links between the more notable family members:

Family tree

(c. 1595–1668) m. Grace Smith (c. 1600–1673) **John Fairbanks I (1618–1684) m. Sarah Fiske (c. 1620–1683) ***Joseph Fairbanks I (1656–1734) m. Dorcas ? (c. 1660–1738) ****Joseph Fairbanks II (1687–1753) m. Abigail Deane (1694–1750) *****Samuel Fairbanks (1728–1812) m. Mary Draper ******Samuel Fairbanks (1753–1825) m. (1). Rachel Lovett (1755–1806); 1807 (2). Joanna Gilmer (d. 1812); 1812 (3). Martha Legg (d. 1838) *******Jasan Fairbanks (1785–1875) m. Mary Massey (1796–1882) ********

George Rainsford Fairbanks George Rainsford Fairbanks (1820–1906) was a lawyer, Clerk of the Circuit Court, Florida State Senator, president of Florida Fruit Growers Association and the Florida Fruit Exchange; editor of the '' Florida Mirror''; the author of books on ...

(1820–1906) **George Fairbanks (1619–1682) ***Eleazer Fairbanks (1655–1741) m. Martha Lovett ****Eleazer Fairbanks (1690–1741) m. Martha Bullard *****Eleazer Fairbanks (1716–1782) m. Prudence Cary ******Abel Fairbanks (1754–1842) m. Hannah Hobbs (d. 1840) *******Harvey Fairbanks (1787–1877) m. Lois Hall (1792–1872) ********Charles Hall Fairbanks (1835–1916) m. Amelia A. Williams (1836–1926) *********Herbert Charles Fairbanks (1859–1932) m. Ellen E. Hammond (1857–1920) **********Frank Latta Fairbanks (1884–1939) m. Helen McClellan Hart *********** David Fairbanks (1922–1975) *****Ebenezer Fairbanks (1734–1812) m. Elizabeth Dearth (1743–1818) ******Joseph Fairbanks (1763–1846) m. Phebe Paddock (1760–1853) ******* Erastus Fairbanks (1792–1864) m. Lois Crossman (1792–1866) ********

Horace Fairbanks Horace Fairbanks (March 21, 1820 – March 17, 1888) was an American politician and the 36th governor of Vermont from 1876 to 1878. Biography Fairbanks was born in Barnet, Vermont, on March 21, 1820, the third of nine children of Erastus Fairb ...

(1820–1888) m. Mary E. Taylor (1824–1901) ******** Franklin Fairbanks (1828–1895) ******* Thaddeus Fairbanks (1796–1886) m. Lucy Peck Barker (1798-1866) ********Henry Fairbanks (1830–1918) m. 1862 (1). Annie S. Noyes (1845–1872); 1874 (2). Ruthy Page *********

Charlotte Fairbanks Charlotte Fairbanks (December 11, 1871 – February 15, 1932) was an American medical doctor and chemist. She earned a B.A. from Smith college in 1894, and graduated with a Ph.D. in chemistry from Yale at the age of 25. By this time she had publi ...

(1871–1932) ******Rufus Fairbanks (1759–1842) m. Ann Prescott (1766–1850) ******* Charles Rufus Fairbanks (1790–1841) ******* Samuel Prescott Fairbanks (1795–1882) *** Jonathan Fairbanks (1662–1719) m. (1). Sarah ? (1666–1713) ****Samuel Fairbanks (1693–1756) m. Susannah Watson *****Samuel Fairbanks (1720–1790) m. (1). Hannah Corbin; (2). Lucy Smith (d. 1802) ******Jonas Fairbanks (1747–1825) m. (1). Mary Carter; 1782. (2). Freelove Stanley (1760–1831) *******Ebenezer Fairbanks (1776–1848) m. Abigail Cobb ********Henry Fairbanks (1825–1909) m. Esther Palmer (1832–1910) *********Charles Fairbanks (1857–1935) m. Sarah Palmer (1860–1954) **********Louis Byron Fairbanks (1885–1961) m. Henrietta Herron ***********

Charles H. Fairbanks Charles Herron Fairbanks (June 3, 1913 – July 17, 1984) was an archaeologist/anthropologist. He conducted archaeology at the Ocmulgee National Monument in Macon, Georgia where he developed rigorous, painstaking field methodology. His 1967–196 ...

(1913–1984) **Jonas Fairbanks (1625–1676) m. Lydia Prescott ***Jabez Fairbank (c. 1670–1758) m. (1). Mary Wilder (c. 1675–1718) ****Joseph Fairbank (1693–1772) m. Mary Brown (c. 1700–1791) *****Joseph Fairbank (1722–1802) m. (1). Mary Willard (1722–1748); 1749 (2). Abigail Tarbell (1721–1798); 1801 (3). Mary Willard ******Joseph Fairbank (1743–1784) m. Asenath Osgood *******Joseph Fairbank III (1778–1847) m. Polly Brooks (1780–1860) ********David Fairbanks (1810–1895) m. Susan Mandeville (1819–1899) *********

Ralph Jacobus Fairbanks Ralph Jacobus Fairbanks (December 26, 1857 – October 3, 1943) was an American prospector, entrepreneur, and pioneer who established several towns in the Death Valley area of California, including Fairbanks Springs (1904–05), Shoshone (1910), a ...

(1857–1943) m. Celestia Adelaide Johnson **********Zella Modine (1900–1995) ***********

Nola Fairbanks Nola Fairbanks (born Nola Jo Modine; December 10, 1924 – February 8, 2021) was an American actress. She was also the aunt of actor Matthew Modine. Early life Fairbanks was born Nola Jo Modine in Santa Paula, California, on December 10, 1924, t ...

(1924–2021) ***********Mark Alexander Modine ************

Matthew Modine Matthew Avery Modine (born March 22, 1959) is an American actor and filmmaker, who rose to prominence through his role as U.S. Marine Private/Sergeant J.T. "Joker" Davis in ''Full Metal Jacket''. His other film roles include the title character ...

(b. 1959) ************* Ruby Modine (b. 1990) ******** John Boylston Fairbanks (1817–1875) m. Sarah Van Wagoner *********

John Fairbanks John B. Fairbanks (December 27, 1855, in Payson, Utah – June 15, 1940, in Salt Lake City) was an American landscape painter. In 1890, he was one of a group of artists who studied in Paris under the sponsorship of the Church of Jesus Christ of L ...

(1855–1940) m. (1). Lilly Huish (1857–1898); 1917 (2). Florence Gifford ********** J. Leo Fairbanks (1878–1946) **********Ortho Lane Fairbanks (b. 1887) *********** Ortho R. Fairbanks (1925–2015) **********

Avard Fairbanks Avard Tennyson Fairbanks (March 2, 1897 – January 1, 1987) was a 20th-century American sculptor. Over his eighty-year career, he sculpted over 100 public monuments and hundreds of artworks. Fairbanks is known for his religious-themed commis ...

(1897–1987) ***********

Jonathan Leo Fairbanks Jonathan Leo Fairbanks (born February 19, 1933, in Ann Arbor) is an American artist and expert of American arts and antiques. Fairbanks created the American Decorative Arts and Sculpture department at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and served ...

(b. 1933) ****Jonas Fairbank (1703–1792) m. Thankful Wheeler (1711–1795) *****Josiah Fairbank (1734–1798) m. Abigail Carter (d. 1815) ******Manesseh Fairbank (1765–1848) m. Octavia Taylor (1771–1866) *******Stephen Taylor Fairbank (1794–1850) m. Mehitable Kellogg ******** Nathaniel Kellogg Fairbank (1829–1903) m. Helen Livingston Graham (1840–1895) *********Kellogg Fairbank (1869–1939) m.

Janet Ayer Fairbank Janet Fairbank ( Ayer; June 7, 1878 – December 28, 1951) was an American author and suffragette, socially and politically active in Chicago and a champion of progressive causes. Biography Janet Ayer was born in Chicago, Illinois, on June 7, ...

(1878–1951) **********

Janet Fairbank Janet Fairbank (June 18, 1903 – September 25, 1947) was an American operatic singer. She was the Chicago-born daughter of novelist and suffragette Janet Ayer Fairbank and Kellogg Fairbank, the son of industrialist N. K. Fairbank and the niece ...

(1903–1947) ******Ephraim Fairbank (1770–1837) m. Sarah Chandler (1776–1844) *******John Barnard Fairbank (1796–1873) m. Hannah M. Crissy ********Rev.

Samuel B. Fairbank Samuel Bacon Fairbank Doctor of Divinity, D.D. (December 14, 1822 – May 31, 1898) was an American evangelist, writer, translator, and amateur naturalist who worked in India with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, American ...

(1822–1898) m. 1846 Abby Allen (d. 1852); 1856 (2). Mary Ballantine (1836–1878) *********Rev. Henry Fairbank (1862–1926) m. Ruby Elizabeth Harding (1860–1906) **********Samuel Ballantine Fairbank (1887–1959) m. Helen Leslie Martin ***********

William M. Fairbank William Martin Fairbank (24 February 1917 in Minneapolis – 30 September 1989 in Palo Alto) was an American physicist known in particular for his work on liquid helium. Career Fairbank was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and earned an AB from Wh ...

(1917–1989) m. Jane Davenport ************ Richard Fairbank (b. 1950) ********Rev. John Barnard Fairbank (1831–1910) m. 1859 (1). Emily P. Mack (d. 1860); 1863 (2). Ruth A. Boyce (d. 1889) *********Arthur Boyce Fairbank (1873–1936) m. Lorena King (1874–1979) **********

John K. Fairbank John King Fairbank (May 24, 1907 – September 14, 1991) was an American historian of China and United States–China relations. He taught at Harvard University from 1936 until his retirement in 1977. He is credited with building the field of Ch ...

(1907–1991) ****Thomas Fairbank (1707–1791) m. Dorothy Carter (1710–1784) *****John Fairbank (1731–1817) m. (1). Relief Houghton; 1796 (2). Tabitha White ******John Fairbank (1755–1830) m. Fanny Kelton (d. 1847) *******Asa Fairbank (1784–1842) m. 1827 (1). Polly Leonard (d. 1827); 1829 (2). Mary Oliver (d. 1870) ******** John Henry Fairbank (1831–1914) m. Edna Chrysler (1829–1896) *********

Charles Oliver Fairbank Charles Oliver Fairbank (June 6, 1904 - 1982) was an Ontario petroleum engineer and political figure. He represented Lambton East in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Liberal member from 1938 to 1943. He was born in Petrolia, Ontario, t ...

(1858–1925) m. Clara Mabel Sussex **********

(1904–1982) ****Joshua Fairbank (1714–1769) m. Eunice Wilder *****Calvin Fairbank (1753–1836) m. (1). Jenny Ayers (1755–1803) ******Chester Fairbank (1788–1849) m. Betsey Abbott (1787–1882) *******

Calvin Fairbank Calvin Fairbank (November 3, 1816 – October 12, 1898) was an American abolitionist and Methodist minister from New York state who was twice convicted in Kentucky of aiding the escape of slaves, and served a total of 19 years in the Kentucky S ...

(1816–1898) *****Luther Fairbank (1755–1836) m. 1777 (1). Thankful Wheelock (1757–1820); (2). Anna ? (d. 1842) ******Luther Fairbank (1780–1857) m. (1). Lucy Lewis (1785–1842); 1849 (2). Miranda McLenathan (d. 1850) *******Loriston Monroe Fairbanks (1824–1900) m. Mary A. Smith ********

(1852–1918) m.

Cornelia Cole Fairbanks Cornelia "Nellie" Cole Fairbanks (January 14, 1852 – October 24, 1913) was the wife of Charles W. Fairbanks, the 26th vice president of the United States. During her husband's tenure she held the unofficial position of the second Lady of the Uni ...

(1852–1913) *********Richard Monroe Fairbanks (1884–1944) m. Louise Hibben (1889–1912) **********Richard Monroe ("Dick") Fairbanks (1912–2000) m. (1). Mary Caperton (d. 1967); 1968 (2). Virginia Nicholson Brown (d. 2007) *********** Richard M. Fairbanks III (1941–2013)

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