Biographies
WILLARD A. FAIRFIELD
It was at Fort Wayne, Ind., that Willard
A. Fairfield was born November 12, 1854. He was educated in public schools, and
after his graduation from the high school was employed there at farm labor
until he was twenty-two years old. He then went to Golden, Colo., and entered
the Colorado State School of Mines, from which he was graduated as a mining
engineer in 1881. From that time until 1891, during a period of ten years, he
was kept busy examining mines and reporting on mining property in Colorado.
Meanwhile, in 1889, he returned to Fort Wayne, Ind., and opened a real-estate
office and engaged in the sale of stock. For several years he was successful in
these lines and especially so in the stock department of his business. Then he
came to Sacramento, Cal., and made a careful survey from his professional point
of view of the Sacramento Valley in particular and in a general way of the
whole state. Going back east he remained for a short time, but reappeared in
Sacramento March 26, 1910, and acquired the interest of J. F. Brickell in the Oak Park Realty Company, of which he is now
president, engaging in a general real-estate and brokerage business.
On December 4, 1894, Mr. Fairchild married
Miss Ella M. Barrows, of La Grange, Ind., daughter of an early settler and
prominent farmer of that section of the state and one of the leading men of
that city until his death, which occurred when he had reached the advanced age
of ninety-four years. Mr. and Mrs. Fairchild have three children: Mabel Ruth,
born July 10, 1897; Paul B., born March 10, 1899, and Howard I., born March 27,
1902. As a business man Mr. Fairchild is successful beyond many in his time. As
a citizen he undertakes in a public-spirited way to do his duty as a consistent
Democrat. Fraternally he affiliates with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
He has long been helpfully identified with the Congregational Church.
Transcribed by Sally Kaleta.
Source: Willis,
William L., History of Sacramento County,
California, Pages 938-940 . Historic Record Company,
© 2006 Sally Kaleta.