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Edwin M. Fairchild

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Edwin Milton Fairchild (November 7, 1865 in Lansing, Michigan[1]-1939) was a Unitarian minister and lecturer.[2]

Fairchild was a descendant of Thomas Fairchild, an early settler in New England. He was a son of George Fairchild, and grandson of Grandison Fairchild.[1]

In 1911, he was a founder of the Character Education Institute.[3]

On July 1, 1897, Fairchild married Mary Salome Cutler, a pioneer in the modern library movement.[1]

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  1. ^ a b c Fairchild, Edwin Milton in Marquis Who's Who (1901-1902 edition) (via archive.org
  2. ^ Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary, Volume 2, p. 594, by Edward T. James, Janet Wilson James, Paul S. Boyer; Harvard University Press 1971
  3. ^ Teaching the "Science" of Character: The Modernist Impulse and Progressive Approaches to Reforming Moral Education in the United States in the Early Twentieth Century", by Dennis Gunn; in American Educational History Journal vol, 45 #1 and 2 (p. 31); published 2018; citing "McClellan 1992, 57" - which is not visible via google snippet view. If you can find the original source, good; this will do for now. McClellan may have been "Edward"?