The Alaska daily empire., 1918-06-05
FAMILY BEDSIDE
 0F FAIRBANKS WHEN HE DIED Passed Away at His Home
 in Indianapolis Last Night After Several Days Illness. BORN IN A LOB CABIN Sketch of the Life of For mer ViCe-President Who
 Was Related to Cromwell.
BORN IN A LOB CABIN

INDIANAPOLIS, June 5.-CharleS Warren Fairbanks, former Vice President of the United States, died last night of interstitial nephritis. All of the members of the family except Major Richard Fairbanks who is now in France, were at his bedside.
 The distinction of birth in q log cabin, which illustrious Americans of an carrier day commonly had, was also that of former Vice-President Fairbanks. It is probable that he was the last of American states men to have been born in one of these humble cabins.
 The one where he was born on May II, 1852, was at Unionville Center, o. It came dangerously near being the funeral pyre for the fu ture statesman When Mr. Fair banks was a boy of four, his father built new home, and the one room log cabin was used as a car penter shop. One day while the workmen were at lunch Charles wandered into the shop and care lessly threw a bunch of shaFings into the open fireplace. The cabin caught fire and when the boy re- alized his danger he was forced to scramble through a window. MT. Fairbanks traced his ances- tors to the days of Oliver Crom- we'll, who counted "Fayerbankes" among his supporters. Jonathan Fayerbankes, the first member of the family to come to America, land ed at Boston in 1636 Mir. Fair banks father was Lorison Monroe Fairbanks, a wagon maker of Yer mont, who emigrated to Union County, o. His mother was a sis ter of the late William Henry Smith, once general manager of The Associated Press.
 1 The Fairbanks home frequently was the hiding place of runaway slaves and no blackman ever was turned away from the door. Fair banks was eight years old when Abraham Lincoln was elected Presi- ! dcnl uCH IOllOWcu tllt SIsll w ci , the stirring scene of which the fu- ture Vice-President followed with keen interest
 Fairbanks at 15 entered the Ohio Wesleyan College at Delaware, O., sharing an attic room with the son of another farmer, and the two cooked their own meals Fairbanks did carpenter work to earn his first law books.
 Soon after he was graduated, MT. Fairbanks was appointed agent of The Associated Press at Pittsburgh, Pa, holding that position for one year His most important assign ment was the rally of the Demo- crats and liberal Republicans in . 1872. This was one of the largest meetings of the campaign and was addressed by Horace Greeley. Later in life he frequently referred with keen delight to his work as a news paper man.
 From Pittsburgh, MT. Fairbanks went to Cleveland and completed his law course. In 1874 he married Miss Cornelia Cole, the continuation of romance that began when both Were members of the editorial staff of their college paper. To them were born five children, one daugh- ter and four sons.
 After marriage Mir. Fairbanks moved to Indianapolis and opened a law office. He took a deep interest in politics and assisted in local, state and national campaigns, managed Walter O. Gresham's cam paign for the Republican nomina- tion for the Presidency in 1888 and
 later labored industriously for Ben Jamin Harrison's nomination
 It has been stated many times that MT. Fairbanks did more to commit the Republican party in Indiana to the gold standard in
 lSs6 than any other man and that he wrote the money plank in the national platform adopted at the St. Louis convention, over which he presided as temporary chair man. When William Mckinley was nominated for the Presidency
 MT Fairbanks toured the country in his interests.
 In January, 1897, MT. Fairbanks was elected to the United States Senate. Hestook his seat on March
 the day on which Mckinley be- came President Ha hacavna a cyooa