L. M. FAIRBANKS, farmer, P.O. Unionville Center, came to this State in 1837. He was born in Windsor County, Vt., in 1824, and is a son of Luther and Lucy (Lewis) Fairbanks, both natives of that State. They came to Ohio at the date above written, and settled on the Darby, in Union Township. Luther was a farmer, and worked at farming some years, after which he returned to Massachusetts and remained six or eight years, but subsequently returned to Ohio and died at the residence of his son, at the age of seventy-six years. His wife preceded him to the grave. The subject of this sketch was raised on the homestead farm in Union Township and afterward returned to the Eastern States and remained three or four years. He then settled on his present farm of 220 acres of valuable and productive land. He followed his trade wagon-maker from 1844 to 1850, in Union Township. He is largely engaged in stock and grain dealing at the present time has been Trustee of the township, and a member of the Agricultural Board eight years. He is one of the oldest and most highly respected citizens of the county, and in politics a Republican. In 1846, he married Miss Mary A. Smith, a native New York State, a history of whose ancestry is hereto appended. This union was blest with ten children, of whom seven survive, viz. : Charles W., Luther M., William D., Newton H., Jennie, Nellie and Harry.

The Dictionary of American Biography, Volume VI: p. 248 says, Loriston Monroe Fairbanks & his wife, Mary Adelaide Smith "were Methodists and Abolitionists--in its day a potent combination--who reared their numerous brood of children after the fashion of pioneers. Years later as a candidate for aoffice, Charles Warren Fairbanks found it no disadvantage to have been born in a log cabin, to have worked barefoot in the fields, to have walked ta mile and a half to the district school, to have observed his parents giving aid and comfort to runaway slaves."