The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-04-07
JOLTED HIN BADLY
Young Mr.. Fairbanks Found That
His Grandfather Died in
s & Infancy :
At Least That's What the Genealo-
ogical Book Said The Family
Incorporates.

His grandfather died in infancy SO that
a certain Minneapolitan named Fairbanks
could not claim official connection with
the welknown family Of that name.
After he had discovered his unhappy past
in the Fairbanks Genealogy,'' some
months ago this young man disappeared.
Yet he has local relatives de facto il not
de jure, and several of them will attend
the next annual reunion of the Fairbanks
family at Denham, Mass.
I The Fairbanks-es are not only family
but corporation. They have organized
to- preserve family records and traditions
The Fairbanks association thus begun will
soon gain possession of the family resi-
dence. But the sons and daughters Of
old Jonathan Fairbanks, who built the
house at Dedham in 1886. will not all stay
at home. There are 10000 or $1,000 Of
them, and the house contains twelve
rooms. Even the most congenial people
may quarrel when they try to live too
snug1y. - sr ..,s y"
Frank M. Fairbanks, insurance agent.
of this city, is a Fairbank or Fairbanks,
according as he cares to write his name.
He's in the "Genealogy" also, and his
| grandfather did not perish prematurely.
But I was always sorry for the young
man that disappeared, said Mr.. Fair
bank yesterday. II know he was one Of
us. He was Fairbanks by birth and he
had an uncle named Jonas. Jonas has
! been favorite name Of ours ever since
the Jonathan Fairbanks-e first moved to
Dedham. They had a. son named Jonas.
| Yes, this young man certainly belonged
to us, but one day he came across the
'Genealogy. He never, recovered from the
| shock. He had arranged to attend the
| reunion at Dedham but he saw it WASH
worth while. He didn't protest. He re-
allied that he had been effaced, that his
whole existence had been unauthorized
He began to fail physically. He said with
some bitterness. that he did not wish tc
live lie. When he babe me good-by last
fall he said he was going away for his
health. I wrote to him as he requested
but have never heard from him since.
| But about our association-it will b.
something unique, think, family exist.
ing. so to speak, according to bylaws ant
a constitution: But, of course, you cam
get in merely by being born Fairbanks
You have to purchase share of stock ant
you must have parents in the Gene
alogy.' .s.,...... .-..s.-
'"rhe old home that we're going to bu.
at Dedham Is a rare relic. It's one o
the very few wooden houses that still re
main in good preservatio from the earl,
colonial days.
Jonathan didn't have a big family &C
cording to the Roosevelt Standard. H
had only six children-George, John, 10
mas, Jonathan, Susan and Mary. Blu
there was nothing suicidal about thos
six. They multiplied and divided unit
now they've got 5000 little families o
, their own inside the 'Genealogy,' not t
, speak Of some outside, and they are scat
tered from Nova Scotia to Southern Cali
fornia, from Florida to Alaska. Our mos
! distinguished relatives, suppose: hav
been the scale-maker. the soap maker
and the senator from Indiana. -'-: