Father: Jonathan FAIRBANKS***
b: 01 APR 1811 in Harrison, Cumberland, ME
d: 16 MAY 1877 in Fairfield, Somerset, ME
Mother: Sylvina Beulah MORTON***
b: 23 FEB 1806 in Harrison, Cumberland, ME
d: 28 OCT 1859 in Wilton. Franklin, ME

Marriage: Wilma HUTCHINS
b: 13 OCT 1849 in Penobscot, Hancock, ME
(dau. of Horatio HUTCHINS and Mercy McCASLIN)
d: 16 AUG 1916 in Boston, Suffolk, MA
Married: 20 JUL 1871 in Boston, Suffolk, MA by the Rev. George C. Lorrimer

Lorenzo S. Fairbanks. Genealogy of the Fairbanks Family in America 1633-1897. Boston. 1897.

Jonathan R.FAIRBANKS was mustered on 14 AUG 1862 into Company C of the 16th Maine Infantry. Gen. John Reynolds was his Commander, he was in action at Antietam. They were beaten at Fredricksburg. At Gettysburg, the 16th Maine was one of the last to leave its position. At this time he was captured and sent as a prisoner to Richmond, VA., paroled on 25 AUG 1863. After returned to his unit he was in the Battle of Wilderness, and the Battle of Laurel Hillls, where he was wounded. Three weeks latter back in action at Cold Harbor, and in August the Battle of Weldon Railroad, where he was wounded again. 25 May 1865 he was discharged at Washington DC. He returned to Maine, then moved to Boston, Mass. in 1868.

"During the war of the Rebellion, he was corporal in Co. C, 16th Reg. Me. Vols., and a prisoner at Belle Isle, Richmond. He has been a resident of Boston many years, and is a member of the firm of Fairbanks & Co., bottlers. Married, in 1871, Wilma, daughter of Horatio and Mercy (McCaslin) Hutchins, of Penobscot, Me. She was born Oct. 13, 1849, and is third in descent from William Hutchings, the last New England survivor of the Revolution."

Children:
Grace FAIRBANKS
b: 27 FEB 1872 in Boston, Suffolk, MA
Marriage1: Daniel Frederick DAVIES
b: 07 AUG 1869 in Boston, Suffolk, MA
(son of Charles H. DAVIES and Mary A. STEVENS)
Married: 04 FEB 1891 in Boston, Suffolk, MA
Marriage2: Irving Harry ATWOOD
b: 28 SEP 1874 in Amesbury, Essex, MA
(son of Washington Irving ATWOOD and Abbie E. HARTWELL)
Married: 03 NOV 1906 in Boston, Suffolk, MA
US CENSUS: 1910 1930 1940 Amesbury, Essex, MA
US CENSUS: 1920 Brookline, Norfolk, MA

Beulah FAIRBANKS
b: 10 NOV 1873 in Boston, Suffolk, MA
d: 26 MAR 1879 in Boston, Suffolk, MA

Frank Perley FAIRBANKS
b: 17 JUL 1875 in Boston, Suffolk, MA
WWI Draft Reg. Westchester County no 4, New York, 1917-1918
Arrived by ship to NY 10 JUN 1926
d: 1934 Palm Beach, Florida
Marriage: Sophia G. G.
Married: Mamaroneck, Westchester, New York

Florence Russell FAIRBANKS
b: 14 SEP 1877 in Boston, Suffolk, MA
d: 27 JUL 1878 in Boston, Suffolk, MA

Marjorie FAIRBANKS
b: 07 JUN 1882 in Boston, Suffolk, MA
d: 03 OCT 1953 in San Francisco, CA

Dorothy FAIRBANKS
b: 22 JAN 1887 in Boston, Suffolk, MA
d: 18 OCT 1949 in Boston, Suffolk, MA

Hester FAIRBANKS
b: 24 AUG 1889 in Boston, Suffolk, MA
d: 24 AUG 1889 in Boston, Suffolk, MA

(Jonathan Robinson FAIRBANKS
Cause of death: Hypostatic pneumonia; heart failure.)