The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1900-10-05
John COntpo Fairfax.

DR.. John Contce Fairfax, who died ut
his home. Northampton in Prince George 5
county. Friday, was buried Monday after
noon at Rocl, Creek Church, near George
town, D. c., DR.. Fairfax led a very rctir-
ed life He was i'll not more than two
| hours. and the cause of his death was
heart failure He was born September
| 18th, 1880 and had, therefore, just cu1er-
ed - DAYS upon his seventy first year when
he died.
Dr. John Contee Fairfax was loved and
respected by q wide circle of friends He
was bv birth and direct decent peer of
Scotland ard the eleventh Baron Of Cam
cron. He preferred, however, to be a
| plain American citizen, and lived the life
| of a gentleman planter in the South He
graduated early in life from the medical
school of the University of Pennsylvania
| He received his education in Georgetown
and graduated from Princeton before
taking his degree in medicine. During
the war he and his family strongly sympa-
thizcd with the South. He removed per
| mainly 10 the neighborhood Of Beltsvlile
Prince Georges county, where he settled
down upon lands and the modest fortune
which had descended to him.
N0rthamrton plantation, where he died
consists OF about 100 acres of land. The
! house, built more than 80 years ago, is
long and low, with ample verandas, and
| ! I,
Under an Usage orange tree, believed to
be 200 years old, which stands in front Of
the porch, he spent much of his time in
summer.
He married a daughter of Colonel Kirby,
of the United States Army. He leaves
six children. The sons, Albert Kirby Fair
fax and Charles Edmund Fairfax, and
daughter, Mary Cecilia, live in New York
Mrs Tunstall Smith, lives in Baltimore,
and two others, Caroline Snowden Fair
fax and Frances Marvin Fairfax, reside
at the old mansion. Mrs. Burton Harri-
son. novelist, and her brother, Clarence
Cary a lawyer of New York city, are
cousins of the Farfaxes. Major n. S.
Hill, of Baltimore, is also cousin.
The Fairfax family is believed to have
been of Saxon origin. Its original seat in
England was at Walton, in Yorkshire.
In 1927 Sir Thomas Fairfax, Knight of
Denton and Steeton, County York, was
created Baron Fairfax of Cameron. His
son, Fcrdinando, second of the title COM
manded at Marston Moor, and the third
Lord Fairfax was GcneraliSsimo Of the
Parliament and commanded at Naseby,
dying in 1911.
The sixth Baron Fairfax turned over
his estate TO his brother Robert and came
to live in Virginia, building two mansions
-Bclvoir and Gurnsey Court-and was
lieutenant and custos rotuorum of Fred
erick county. He died unmarried in 1893,
and his brother succeeded him, but left
no descendants.
The English estate passed by will to
female heirs, the Martins, of Leeds Castle,
who still hold it, and the title went to the
Rev. Bryan Fairfax, a great grandson OF
the fourth Baron Fairfax. He went to
England and had the title confirmed by
the House of Lords. His son, Thomas
Fairfax, of Varcluse, Va, was the ninth
Baron, and he was a sturdy demo
crat and wanted no empty title, and of
John Contee Fairfax, who had no ambi-
ton that way either. Charles Fairfax
died in 1869 in California, where he filled
a distinguished career Albert Kirby
Fairfax, the eldest son of John Contee
Fairfax, is in the banking house of Brown
Brothers Il Co, of New York citv.-BaHi
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