- Franklin Fairbanks
Colonel Franklin Fairbanks (1828 - 2008 ) was president of
Fairbanks Scales , a philanthropist, and a co-founder of the city of Winter Park,Florida and one of the founders and first trustees ofRollins College . [ [http://www.wppl.org/wphistory/FoundersBio.htm#ALONZO%20W.%20ROLLINS Winter Park Founder's Biographies] ]Fairbanks was born in
St. Johnsbury, Vermont onJune 28 ,1828 .At age 18, he entered the family scales manufacturing business. He became president of the company in 1888. Fairbanks was also an officer and director in a number of mining, manufacturing, banking, and telegraph businesses. He was a member of the Vermont legislature. [ [http://www.wppl.org/wphistory/founders.html] ]
He was a trustee of
St. Johnsbury Academy . [ [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nekg3/schools/school_st-johnsbury-academy-1888.htm] ] He donated theFairbanks Museum and Planetarium to the town of St. Johnsbury. [ [http://www.drbob.info/New-Awakening.shtml] ] With the museum came his collection of natural science specimens and related artifacts. [ [http://www.stjathenaeum.org/docs/archive%20guide.pdf] ]Fairbanks came to
Winter Park, Florida in 1881-82 with his friend and business associate, Charles H. Morse, who was also from St. Johnsbury. He was one of the first investors to purchase lakefront property.Fairbanks was one of the first trustees of
Rollins College and contributed towards its founding.He died
April 24 ,1895 .His house in St. Johnsbury at 30 Western Avenue is on the list of the
National Registry of Historic Places .Footnotes
External links
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=_L0MAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA128&lpg=RA1-PA128&dq=%22franklin+Fairbanks%22+%22St.+Johnsbury+Academy%22+vermont+-wikipedia&source=web&ots=xI8P3hY0BB&sig=P5_vZii6NVqme0DO-xFXFrXzxoY&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result#PRA1-PA127,M1]
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