Edwin M. Fairchild Explained

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]

External links

• Edwin Milton Fairchild at Find A Grave
• The Character Education Work of Milton Fairchild: A Prism for Exploring the Debate between Liberal Progressives and Conservative Progressives in the Early 20th Century, by Allison L. Jackson, 2018

Notes and References

1. https://archive.org/details/whoswhoinamerica02marq/page/360/mode/2up Fairchild, Edwin Milton
2. https://books.google.com/books?id=rVLOhGt1BX0C&dq=%22Edwin+Milton+Fairchild%22&pg=PA594 Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary, Volume 2
3. https://books.google.com/books?id=yyBzDwAAQBAJ&dq=Edwin+Milton+Fairchild&pg=PA31 Teaching the "Science" of Character: The Modernist Impulse and Progressive Approaches to Reforming Moral Education in the United States in the Early Twentieth Century"