All the time he was interested with his father in the stock business. In 1896 they left that country and the following year they came to their present place adjoining Peck and settled, the land being then unsurveyed. They filed in June 1898. Mr. Fairley has a nice lot of stock, cattle, hogs and so forth. He also raises much poultry and does a general farming business.
Good buildings adorn the premises.
The nuptials occurred on December 17, 1895. Mr. Lacey was born in Virginia and his wife in Iowa. Her father died when she was nine months old and her mother when she was seven years of age. Mrs. Fairley was born in Indiana, in 1866, and is an only child. Mr. Fairley is a Democrat but not aggressive.