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Jairus Fairchild
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Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Jairus Cassius Fairchild (1801-1862), the first mayor of the city Madison (1856). Fairchild was also the father of Lucius Fairchild, governor and Civil War general, and Cassius Fairchild, also a Civil War officer.
1862
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Sally Blair Fairchild
1862
Sally Blair Fairchild, the wife of Jairus Fairchild, the first mayor of Madison, and the mother of Lucius, Cassius, Charles Fairchild, and Sarah Fairchild Dean Conover. This photograph was probably...
Lucius Fairchild
1864
Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Colonel Lucius Fairchild in Madison, probably after the loss of his arm at Gettysburg. This portrait can be dated as no later than mid-1864 because that is the...
Place plaque paying honor to Fairchilds
Oct 04, 1935
Milwaukee Sentinel
