Grandison Fairchild
{{Short description|American reformer (1792–1890)}}
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| birth_date = 1792
| birth_place = Sheffield, Massachusetts
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| death_place = Brownhelm, Ohio
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Grandison Fairchild (1792–1890) was an American reformer and active in the founding of Oberlin College.
Family
His sons became presidents of various educational institutions. James was president of Oberlin for a quarter of a century. Henry was president of Berea College at Berea, Kentucky. George was president of Kansas State University. Grandison Fairchild, a devout Christian, once jokingly expressed regret that all of his sons had not become full-time ministers. "They all petered out as college presidents," he is reported to have said.[http://www.pilgrimjohnhowlandsociety.org/descendants_fairchild_bros.shtml The Pilgrim John Howland Society – Articles: Descendants: Three Fairchild Brothers – Three College Presidents] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070216123551/http://www.pilgrimjohnhowlandsociety.org/descendants_fairchild_bros.shtml |date=2007-02-16 }}
Grandison and his family settled in the wilderness in Ohio about 1818.T. M. Fairchild and Sarah Ellen (Fairchild) Filter, [https://archive.org/details/TheNameAndFamilyOfFairchildCompiledByTimothyMarshFairchildAndSarahEllenFairchildPub.1944 The Name and Family of Fairchild], The Mercer Printing Company, Iowa City, IA, 1944[https://archive.org/details/historyoflorainc00phil/page/n311 History of Lorain County, Ohio with Illustrations & Biographical Sketches of Some of its Prominent Men and Pioneers], Philadelphia, Williams Brothers, 1879 page 219
He was born in Sheffield, Massachusetts and died in Brownhelm, Ohio.
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