Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-16
HlLARD L. FAIRBANKS.
Death of WeIl-known Bangor Attorney
Monday Morning.

Bangor, Me, Feb 15.-Hundreds OF
people throughout the State will sym
)patEiZe most sincerely with Capt. and
Mrs. II. n. Fairbanks in their great
sorrow caused by the death of their
son, Hiland Lockwood Fairbanks,
which occurred at his home, No. :
Ohio street, on Monday morning Mr.
Fairbanks had been suffering from
tuberculosis and passed away peace
fully at some time during the night
Hiland l.. Fairbanks was born in
Pennington, Sept. u. 1871, and thus
at the time of his death was 81 years,
4 months and "a days of age. Short
| ly after this Capt. and Mrs. Fairbanks
| moved to this city where the family
has since resided.
| Mr.. Fairbanks obtained his early ca
| ucation in the local schools and Phil
| lips Exeter where he passed two years
later, coming back to the Bangor High
school from which he was graduated,
| in the class of 1891. He then entered
| BoWdoin College, graduating in 1885.
At Bcwdoin he became a member of
the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity in
which he had always maintained a
keen interest.
Mr.. Fairbanks had early selected the
law for his profession and after com
pleting his studies at Brunswick en-
tered the Harvard Law School from
which he was graduated in 1900. He
served the city as its solicitor IN 1903
1904 previous to which he had for two
years been member or the city coun-
ell In addition 10 carrying on his law
practice Mr.. Fairbanks was associated
with his father in his Insurance
agency.
During his student days Mr. Fair
banks was we'll known throughout the
state and indeed throughout New
England because of his remarkable
ability as an athlete. particularly as
football player. 1t is no exaggera-
ton that no better football player has
ever been developed on Maine grid
iron than Mr. Fairbanks and it is
doubtful if any Maine player has ever
cnnallcd him. He formed the first
football eleven at the Bangor High
school, an eleven that defeated the
University Of Maine in 1880. Later he
coached the Bangor High eleven ia
1893 and 1854 in which years the school
team defeated the University of Maine.
He was for two years. 1894 and 1885.
captain of the BOwdoin eleven and in
1898 had the distinction OF being picked
as quarterback of the All-American
eleven. He later played on the Har-
ward Law School team and would hav,,
made the Varsity with ease but that
he was prevented by the eligibility
rules.
Mr.. Fairbanks was also one of the
lest college baseball players Maine has
known. f'Cr four years he covered
third base for BOwdoin and also play
cd the same position two summers at
POLAND Springs on the best semi-pro-
fessional baseball team that has ever
played IN this State, q team that lost
but five games cut Of 43 played. He
was also q good man in the short dis
tanccs, winning points in the BoWdoil
athletic games.
Ha married December, 1902, Miss
Mary Seavey of Bangor who. VITA
three children, survives. The parents
and one sister, Mrs. A. X Bennett of
Merchantville, n. j., also survive
Mr.. Fairbanks had been i'll for some
time from tuberculosis but his friends
had not known it until fall. when he
went into the Maine woods in the hope
Of relief and later to Hebron but ali
efforts Of the best medical Skill ami
the kindest and most sympathetic
nursing failed before the attacks of
the insidious disease. The cnd came
suddenly as the patient seemed to be
in an improved condition Sunday
Mr.. Fairbanks was n member of St
Andrews Lodge. the Lodge of Per-
lection and Princes of Jerusalem,
Scottish Rite. and the Loyal Legion
He had long been a member of the
Madockawando Club of the condus-
keag Canoe Club in both of which or
CARNATIONS he was greatly liked.