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- [S16] Genealogy of the Fairbanks Family in America 1633-1897, Lorenzo Sayles Fairbanks, A.M., Late Counsellor at Law, (Boston: The American Printing & Engraving, Company, 1897), reprinted by the Fairbanks Family in America 1991 3rd ed.., page 265.
Was Deputy Sheriff of Penobscot Co., Maine, and held other prominent positions. He was a soldier in the Civil War, and attained the rank, by brevet, of General. After the war he opened a Land and Pension office in Washington, D. C.; acquired large properties in the West. His widow still resides in Washington, D. C. (1896).
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