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262TfA. FAIRCHILD,IWinnipeg, Manitoba,wholesale and retaildealer in plows, carriages,threshers, etc., was bornDecember yth, 1849, inOakland, Brant County,Ont. His father, F. G. Fairchild,who is still living, isthe son of Isaac Fairchild,who was the first whitesettler in Brant County,south-west of the GrandRiver, and for years wasIndian agent over thefamous Joseph Brant. Hecame to Canada, in 1784,and settled on a farm inBrant County, which hasremained in the possessionof the family ever since.The mother of our subject,was Priscilla, J. Harris,daughter of the late Rev.John Harris, but now deceased.Mr. Fairchild waseducated at the Mount Plea-Whensant, Out., schools.seventeen years of age, heentered mercantile life, as adry goods clerk at Dundas,where he remained oneyear. Then, after one year as implementagent for A. Harris, of Beams-" Baud Cutter and Feeder," the latterville, Ont., he went implement being a most invaluableto Illinois, U.S. device of immense laborIn 1878, he removed saving value.to Manitoba, In politics, Mr. Fairchild is an Independent,a man who has the couragetaking a car load of horses and implements,being a pioneer in the latter of his convictions, strongly, " Canadabusiness. He soon after entered into First." He ispartnership with H. very prominent in theS. Westbrook, Masonic Order, being a Knight Templar,and holds the 32nd degree in thewhich was dissolved in 1888, when hedecided to establish a wholesale businessof his own, which now extends was married to Miss Mary Ida Bald-Scottish rite. In 1871, Mr. Fairchildfrom Ontario to the Pacific Coast, and win, daughter of the late A. N. Baldwin,Esq., well-known as the "Cattleembraces the goods of the GananoqueCarriage Co., Moline Wagon Co., DeerePlow Co., Wm. Deering's goods, threshers,and the Lundy and FairchildKing" of Green Bush, Warren County,111. His family consists of one sonand four daughters.