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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 292.
died in Perrysburg, O., where he had lived for over thirty years, Jan. 11, 1892.
He was by trade a wheelwright, and a master workman. Was an eccentric character; lived the life of a recluse, and was never married. He owned in Perrysburg, two or more houses, and lived alone in one of them. He was very fond of old books, pictures and relics of every kind, of which he had cartloads when he died. The walls of his house were hung with forty-five antique guns and pistols, and he had an immense store of curiosities, specimens of minerals, &c. Only a short time before his death, he conveyed his real estate to a family living in one of his houses, in consideration of their contract to take care of him during the remainder of his life, and then made a will, giving them all of his personal property. After his death money was found buried in his cellar. One newspaper report, believed to be exaggerated, says that, "A stone was lifted up, and the recess beneath was found to be filled with loose coin and quart cans brimful of gold, silver and copper money."
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1829 - 1892 (62 years)