DECATUR REVIEW 11/18/1919 SHORT VERSION OF OBITUARY
Mr. Fairies was born near Middleton,Shelby county,Ohio, March 4, 1837.As a child he showed a fondness for machinery and an ability to use tools that was remarkable. He made his own toys and when he had finished his course in the rural schools he went to Indianapolis and served his apprenticeship as a machinist in the railroad shops there.
He was twenty two years old when in 1859, he joined the gold seekers in a rush to Pikes Peak.His party made the trip with a wagon drawn by oxen. He returned the following year to Indianapolis and resumed work at his trade.
When the Civil war broke out he enlisted as a member of Co. II, Eleventh Indiana Volunteers under Colonel Low Wallace, who later became General.This enlistment was for three months and when it expired he reenlisted for the duration of the war. However, he had partially lost his hearing while serving with his regiment in Maryland and Virginia and this disqualified him so he had to retire to civilian life.
Robert Faries was married to Lena Bender in Ohio,in 1867. Of the three children born to them two daughters,Mrs. E.P..Irving and Mrs.L.P. Walbridge,both of Decatur. His wife died two years ago and an only son Frank Fairies, died about twelve years ago.A man of plain simple habits,content with the simple life, fond of the company of his fellowman. Robert Fairies was handicapped by his deafness which in late years made it difficult for all except those upon terms of intimacy to hold any conversation with him.
Although he kept in touch with his big manufacturing business he turned the active management of the business over to others several years ago and had devoted practically all his time since in improving his park.
INFORMATION FROM HISTORY OF MACON COUNTY 1876 BOOK
Robert Faries contributed one of the nations most important farm inventions, a complicated machine for tying knots in check rower wire used in corn planting. Faries who came to Decatur in 1863, worked several machine shops before devising the wire machine in his basement workshop in 1873. He had a shop call the Decatur Novelty behind his house on E. Herkimer St(Now Grand Ave.) and the shop became Faries Mfg.Co.which produced gas-electric lamps for fixtures. Faries also headed Walrus Mfg.Co which was a maker of soda fountains, restaurants and bank fixtures. The later years of his lie were give over to nature study and photography.
Creation of the Decatur Park District was brought about by the offer of April 27, 1924 of Faries daughters,Mrs. Walbridge and Mrs.Irving to donate 289 acre Faries park to the city in accordance with their fathers wishes.
THE PARK WAS SOLD IN 2000S TO ADM BY THE DECATUR PARK BOARD. WHAT A SHAME. (MY COMMENT)
There is a very large obituary for Mr. Fairies Daily Review
11/18/1919 Page 13 I just put in part of it.
Mr. Fairies was born near Middleton,Shelby county,Ohio, March 4, 1837.As a child he showed a fondness for machinery and an ability to use tools that was remarkable. He made his own toys and when he had finished his course in the rural schools he went to Indianapolis and served his apprenticeship as a machinist in the railroad shops there.
He was twenty two years old when in 1859, he joined the gold seekers in a rush to Pikes Peak.His party made the trip with a wagon drawn by oxen. He returned the following year to Indianapolis and resumed work at his trade.
When the Civil war broke out he enlisted as a member of Co. II, Eleventh Indiana Volunteers under Colonel Low Wallace, who later became General.This enlistment was for three months and when it expired he reenlisted for the duration of the war. However, he had partially lost his hearing while serving with his regiment in Maryland and Virginia and this disqualified him so he had to retire to civilian life.
Robert Faries was married to Lena Bender in Ohio,in 1867. Of the three children born to them two daughters,Mrs. E.P..Irving and Mrs.L.P. Walbridge,both of Decatur. His wife died two years ago and an only son Frank Fairies, died about twelve years ago.A man of plain simple habits,content with the simple life, fond of the company of his fellowman. Robert Fairies was handicapped by his deafness which in late years made it difficult for all except those upon terms of intimacy to hold any conversation with him.
Although he kept in touch with his big manufacturing business he turned the active management of the business over to others several years ago and had devoted practically all his time since in improving his park.
INFORMATION FROM HISTORY OF MACON COUNTY 1876 BOOK
Robert Faries contributed one of the nations most important farm inventions, a complicated machine for tying knots in check rower wire used in corn planting. Faries who came to Decatur in 1863, worked several machine shops before devising the wire machine in his basement workshop in 1873. He had a shop call the Decatur Novelty behind his house on E. Herkimer St(Now Grand Ave.) and the shop became Faries Mfg.Co.which produced gas-electric lamps for fixtures. Faries also headed Walrus Mfg.Co which was a maker of soda fountains, restaurants and bank fixtures. The later years of his lie were give over to nature study and photography.
Creation of the Decatur Park District was brought about by the offer of April 27, 1924 of Faries daughters,Mrs. Walbridge and Mrs.Irving to donate 289 acre Faries park to the city in accordance with their fathers wishes.
THE PARK WAS SOLD IN 2000S TO ADM BY THE DECATUR PARK BOARD. WHAT A SHAME. (MY COMMENT)
There is a very large obituary for Mr. Fairies Daily Review
11/18/1919 Page 13 I just put in part of it.
DECATUR REVIEW 11/18/1919 SHORT VERSION OF OBITUARY
Mr. Fairies was born near Middleton,Shelby county,Ohio, March 4, 1837.As a child he showed a fondness for machinery and an ability to use tools that was remarkable. He made his own toys and when he had finished his course in the rural schools he went to Indianapolis and served his apprenticeship as a machinist in the railroad shops there.
He was twenty two years old when in 1859, he joined the gold seekers in a rush to Pikes Peak.His party made the trip with a wagon drawn by oxen. He returned the following year to Indianapolis and resumed work at his trade.
When the Civil war broke out he enlisted as a member of Co. II, Eleventh Indiana Volunteers under Colonel Low Wallace, who later became General.This enlistment was for three months and when it expired he reenlisted for the duration of the war. However, he had partially lost his hearing while serving with his regiment in Maryland and Virginia and this disqualified him so he had to retire to civilian life.
Robert Faries was married to Lena Bender in Ohio,in 1867. Of the three children born to them two daughters,Mrs. E.P..Irving and Mrs.L.P. Walbridge,both of Decatur. His wife died two years ago and an only son Frank Fairies, died about twelve years ago.A man of plain simple habits,content with the simple life, fond of the company of his fellowman. Robert Fairies was handicapped by his deafness which in late years made it difficult for all except those upon terms of intimacy to hold any conversation with him.
Although he kept in touch with his big manufacturing business he turned the active management of the business over to others several years ago and had devoted practically all his time since in improving his park.
INFORMATION FROM HISTORY OF MACON COUNTY 1876 BOOK
Robert Faries contributed one of the nations most important farm inventions, a complicated machine for tying knots in check rower wire used in corn planting. Faries who came to Decatur in 1863, worked several machine shops before devising the wire machine in his basement workshop in 1873. He had a shop call the Decatur Novelty behind his house on E. Herkimer St(Now Grand Ave.) and the shop became Faries Mfg.Co.which produced gas-electric lamps for fixtures. Faries also headed Walrus Mfg.Co which was a maker of soda fountains, restaurants and bank fixtures. The later years of his lie were give over to nature study and photography.
Creation of the Decatur Park District was brought about by the offer of April 27, 1924 of Faries daughters,Mrs. Walbridge and Mrs.Irving to donate 289 acre Faries park to the city in accordance with their fathers wishes.
THE PARK WAS SOLD IN 2000S TO ADM BY THE DECATUR PARK BOARD. WHAT A SHAME. (MY COMMENT)
There is a very large obituary for Mr. Fairies Daily Review
11/18/1919 Page 13 I just put in part of it.
Mr. Fairies was born near Middleton,Shelby county,Ohio, March 4, 1837.As a child he showed a fondness for machinery and an ability to use tools that was remarkable. He made his own toys and when he had finished his course in the rural schools he went to Indianapolis and served his apprenticeship as a machinist in the railroad shops there.
He was twenty two years old when in 1859, he joined the gold seekers in a rush to Pikes Peak.His party made the trip with a wagon drawn by oxen. He returned the following year to Indianapolis and resumed work at his trade.
When the Civil war broke out he enlisted as a member of Co. II, Eleventh Indiana Volunteers under Colonel Low Wallace, who later became General.This enlistment was for three months and when it expired he reenlisted for the duration of the war. However, he had partially lost his hearing while serving with his regiment in Maryland and Virginia and this disqualified him so he had to retire to civilian life.
Robert Faries was married to Lena Bender in Ohio,in 1867. Of the three children born to them two daughters,Mrs. E.P..Irving and Mrs.L.P. Walbridge,both of Decatur. His wife died two years ago and an only son Frank Fairies, died about twelve years ago.A man of plain simple habits,content with the simple life, fond of the company of his fellowman. Robert Fairies was handicapped by his deafness which in late years made it difficult for all except those upon terms of intimacy to hold any conversation with him.
Although he kept in touch with his big manufacturing business he turned the active management of the business over to others several years ago and had devoted practically all his time since in improving his park.
INFORMATION FROM HISTORY OF MACON COUNTY 1876 BOOK
Robert Faries contributed one of the nations most important farm inventions, a complicated machine for tying knots in check rower wire used in corn planting. Faries who came to Decatur in 1863, worked several machine shops before devising the wire machine in his basement workshop in 1873. He had a shop call the Decatur Novelty behind his house on E. Herkimer St(Now Grand Ave.) and the shop became Faries Mfg.Co.which produced gas-electric lamps for fixtures. Faries also headed Walrus Mfg.Co which was a maker of soda fountains, restaurants and bank fixtures. The later years of his lie were give over to nature study and photography.
Creation of the Decatur Park District was brought about by the offer of April 27, 1924 of Faries daughters,Mrs. Walbridge and Mrs.Irving to donate 289 acre Faries park to the city in accordance with their fathers wishes.
THE PARK WAS SOLD IN 2000S TO ADM BY THE DECATUR PARK BOARD. WHAT A SHAME. (MY COMMENT)
There is a very large obituary for Mr. Fairies Daily Review
11/18/1919 Page 13 I just put in part of it.
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