Edwin M. Fairchild

{{short description|American Unitarian minister and lecturer (1865-1939)}}

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| name = Edwin M. Fairchild

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1865|11|7}}

| birth_place = Lansing, Michigan, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|1939|12|26|1865|11|7}}

| death_place = Takoma Park, Montgomery County, Maryland, U.S.

| occupation = minister
lecturer

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| spouse = {{marriage|Mary Salome Cutler|1897}}

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Edwin Milton Fairchild (November 7, 1865 - December 26, 1939) was a Unitarian minister and lecturer.[https://books.google.com/books?id=rVLOhGt1BX0C&dq=%22Edwin+Milton+Fairchild%22&pg=PA594 Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary, Volume 2], p. 594, by Edward T. James, Janet Wilson James, Paul S. Boyer; Harvard University Press 1971

Fairchild was a descendant of Thomas Fairchild, an early settler in New England. He was a son of George Fairchild, and grandson of Grandison Fairchild.[https://archive.org/details/whoswhoinamerica02marq/page/360/mode/2up Fairchild, Edwin Milton] in Marquis Who's Who (1901-1902 edition) (via archive.org

In 1911, he was a founder of the Character Education Institute.[https://books.google.com/books?id=yyBzDwAAQBAJ&dq=Edwin+Milton+Fairchild&pg=PA31 Teaching the "Science" of Character: The Modernist Impulse and Progressive Approaches to Reforming Moral Education in the United States in the Early Twentieth Century"], by Dennis Gunn; in American Educational History Journal vol, 45 #1 and 2 (p. 31); published 2018; citing "McClellan 1992, 57" - which is not visible via google snippet view. If you can find the original source, good; this will do for now. McClellan may have been "Edward"?

On July 1, 1897, Fairchild married Mary Salome Cutler, a pioneer in the modern library movement.