He was a graduate of Harvard in 1860. Taught in the Charlestown High School and the Boston Latin School (1861 -1862) till October, 1862, when he went to Port Royal, S.C., as superintendent of deserted plantations. He had trouble with his plantations as having a "ractified mind," --- poor judgement and hot temper. May 7, 1863, he was married, at the church on St. Helena Island, S.C., by Rev. W. S. Phillips, to Ellen H., daughter of W.D. and Hannah Winsor, of Boston. In February, 1864, he leased two government plantations, and employed the freedmen on them. Jan. 8, 1865, he was lost at sea, on the way from New York back to Port Royal, in the ill-fated steamer Melville. 65 passengers died.These are all the facts I have been able to obtain relative to Fairfield,as all his papers were with him on the Melville. He was highly esteemed by the teachers and superintendents at Port Royal, where I occasionally met him in the winter of 1862-63. His wife was one of the teachers of the freedmen on St. Helena Island; and is now the matron of the "Home for Little Wanderers," in Baldwin Place, Boston. He was lost at sea, on the way from New York back to Port Royal (Hilton Head Island), in the ill-fated steamer Melville January 08, 1865 along with 64 other passengers.
He was a graduate of Harvard in 1860. Taught in the Charlestown High School and the Boston Latin School (1861 -1862) till October, 1862, when he went to Port Royal, S.C., as superintendent of deserted plantations. He had trouble with his plantations as having a "ractified mind," --- poor judgement and hot temper. May 7, 1863, he was married, at the church on St. Helena Island, S.C., by Rev. W. S. Phillips, to Ellen H., daughter of W.D. and Hannah Winsor, of Boston. In February, 1864, he leased two government plantations, and employed the freedmen on them. Jan. 8, 1865, he was lost at sea, on the way from New York back to Port Royal, in the ill-fated steamer Melville. 65 passengers died.These are all the facts I have been able to obtain relative to Fairfield,as all his papers were with him on the Melville. He was highly esteemed by the teachers and superintendents at Port Royal, where I occasionally met him in the winter of 1862-63. His wife was one of the teachers of the freedmen on St. Helena Island; and is now the matron of the "Home for Little Wanderers," in Baldwin Place, Boston. He was lost at sea, on the way from New York back to Port Royal (Hilton Head Island), in the ill-fated steamer Melville January 08, 1865 along with 64 other passengers.
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