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- The Fairbanks Family
Posted by Dick Campbell on Fri, 18
Jun 1999
Robert Fairbanks was born at Sandy Lake, Minn., on the 21st day of
September 1825. When he was quite young he was sent to Fredonia, New
York, to be educated, and at the age of twenty he was employed at the
headquarters of the American Fur company at La Pointe, Wisconsin, as
clerk. In 1846 he married Catherine Beaulieu the youngest sister of
C. H. and Paul Beaulieu. He remained at La Pointe until 1851, when he
removed to Crow Wing with his family where he remained in trade for a
number of years, where he had a comfortable home and family of seven
children, four sons and three daughters.
In 1868 he removed to White Earth with his family, where he had taken
charge of the store belonging to Joseph Wakefield, which he ran for a
year, when he opened up a store of his own which he ran until he
died.
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