Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-05
Death Of Former Vice
 President Fairbanks
OCCURRED AT HIS HOME IN IN.
 DIANAPoLIs LAST NIGHT
OF CHRONIC NEPHRITIs
Probably the Last of American States men to Have Been Born in One Room Log Cabin.

men to Have Been Born in One Room Log Cabin. Indianapolis, Ind, June 4.-Charles Warren Fairbanks, former vice presi- dent and former U $. senator for Indiana, died at his home here at S.55 o'clock tonight. Death was due to intersitla. nephritis, which has been a chronic ailment with him, but not re- garded. as particularly serious until recently. All members of the former vice. presidents family except Major Richard Fairbanks, who is in France were at his bedside.
 Mir. Fairbanks became unconscious several days ago and did not regain consciousness. up to the time of his death.
 Mir. Fairbanks was 66 years old. and had been nominated twice on the re- publican ticket for vice president of the United States. After the first nomination he was elected but was defeated in his second race in 1916.
 The distinction of birth in log cabin, which illustrious Americans of an earlier day commonly had. was also that of former Vice President Fair banks It is probable that he was the last of American statesmen. to have been born in one of these humble cabins
 Born in Log Cabin.
 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 future statesman. - UI1a11 F ipho oY1l- nf his father built new home, and the one room log cabin was used as a car penter shop. One day while the work men were at lunch Charles wandered into the shop and carelessly threw a bunch of shavings into the open fire place The cabin caught fire and when the boy realized his danger he was forced to scramble through window. Traced Ancestors to Oliver. Cromwell. 1 Mir Fairbanks traced his ancestors to the days of Oliver Cromwell, who counted "Fayerbankes'' among his supporters Jonathan Fayerbankes the first member of the family to come to, America, landed at Boston in 1886 Mir. Fairbanks father was Loriston Monroe Fairbanks, a wagon maker of Vermont who emisrated to Union county, O. His mother was sister of 1 the late William Henry Smith, once general manager of The Associated Press.
 le The Fairbanks home frequently was ] the hiding place of runaway slaves and no black man ever was turned | away from the door. Fairbanks was years old when Abraham Lincoln wa! elected president Then followed the Civil war, the stirring scenes of whicf 1 the future vice president followed witt \ keen interest.
 Entered College at IS. Fairbanks, at Is, entered Ohio Wes leyan college at Delaware, O., sharing an attic room with the son of another farmer, and tlfe two cooked their ow1 meals. Fairbanks did carpenter worl I to earn his first law books. 1 Soon after he was graduated, MT Fairbanks was appointed agent of Th' | Associated. Press at Pittsburgh, Pa holding that position for one year. Hi most important assignment was tn rally of the democrats and liberal re 1 publicans in 1872. This was one of tn largest meetings of the campaign ant was addressed by Horace Greeley Later in life he frequently referre' with keen delight to his work as newspa perman. ,
 Was Married in 1874.
 From Pittsburgh. MT Fairbank went to Cleveland and completed hi law course. In 1874 he married Mis- Cornelia Cole, the continuation of romance that began when both wer members of the editorial staff of thei college paper. To them were born tiv children one daughter and four son!
 After marriage MT. Fairbanks move to Indianapolis and opened a law of fee. He took deep interest in poll tics and assisted in local state an national campaigns, managed Waite Q. Gresham's campaign for the repub lican nomination for the presidency i 1888 and later labored industriously fo Benjamin Harrison's nomination It has been stated many times tha fMr Fairbanks did more to commit tn republican party in Indiana to the gol standard in 1896 than any other ma and that he wrote the money plan in the national platform adopted . the St. Louis convention. over whic he presided as temporary chairma. When William Mckinley was nomi mated for the presidency Mir. Fair banks toured the country in his inter
 ests.
 . Elected to Senate in 1897. ). In January, 1897, Mr. Fairbanks wa elected to the United States senat ) He took his seat on March 4, the da @ on which Mckinley became presiden
 He became a close adviser of u president in the trying times befoi and during the Spanish American wa
 Among MT Fairbanks greatest SCI
 vices to his country were those pei : formed while he was member of Il
 United States and British joint con
 mission which dealt with the Alaska
 boundary, lake fishing and other ques
 tions.
 MT. Fairbanks was recognized as or
 of the national leaders of the reput
 liean party and as such was mad
 chairman of the committee on resoll
 tions at the Philadelphia national cor
 vention in 1900. He resigned frol
 the senate March 4, 1905, having bee
 elected vice president on the repui
 lican ticket with Theodore Roosevelt
 While he was. vice president M
 Fairbanks in 1908 became a candida
 for the nomination for president. F was defeated by William H. Taft ar
 after his term as, vice president ende
 he went back to the practice of law.