HISTORY OF MOWER COUNTY, 1911.
John F. Fairbanks, for twenty-six years past a successful dealer in coal, fuel and lime, at Austin, was born in Mitchell county, Iowa, July 25, 1857, son of Alonzo Fairbanks, a war-time miller in Austin, and later a Mower county farmer.
John F. passed through the usual experiences of the average farmer boy, worked on the farm, attended the district schools and grew to healthy young manhood.
He worked for a time in an elevator and then engaged in the business which he still conducts.
Mr. Fairbanks married Mary Vaughn, daughter of Albert Vaughn, a native of Virginia, and they have two sons, Harold V. and Rodney Dean.
Mr. Fairbanks is an Odd Fellow, and for many years has served on the Austin school board. He is a member of the Methodist church and of the Republican party.
John F. Fairbanks, for twenty-six years past a successful dealer in coal, fuel and lime, at Austin, was born in Mitchell county, Iowa, July 25, 1857, son of Alonzo Fairbanks, a war-time miller in Austin, and later a Mower county farmer.
John F. passed through the usual experiences of the average farmer boy, worked on the farm, attended the district schools and grew to healthy young manhood.
He worked for a time in an elevator and then engaged in the business which he still conducts.
Mr. Fairbanks married Mary Vaughn, daughter of Albert Vaughn, a native of Virginia, and they have two sons, Harold V. and Rodney Dean.
Mr. Fairbanks is an Odd Fellow, and for many years has served on the Austin school board. He is a member of the Methodist church and of the Republican party.
HISTORY OF MOWER COUNTY, 1911.
John F. Fairbanks, for twenty-six years past a successful dealer in coal, fuel and lime, at Austin, was born in Mitchell county, Iowa, July 25, 1857, son of Alonzo Fairbanks, a war-time miller in Austin, and later a Mower county farmer.
John F. passed through the usual experiences of the average farmer boy, worked on the farm, attended the district schools and grew to healthy young manhood.
He worked for a time in an elevator and then engaged in the business which he still conducts.
Mr. Fairbanks married Mary Vaughn, daughter of Albert Vaughn, a native of Virginia, and they have two sons, Harold V. and Rodney Dean.
Mr. Fairbanks is an Odd Fellow, and for many years has served on the Austin school board. He is a member of the Methodist church and of the Republican party.
John F. Fairbanks, for twenty-six years past a successful dealer in coal, fuel and lime, at Austin, was born in Mitchell county, Iowa, July 25, 1857, son of Alonzo Fairbanks, a war-time miller in Austin, and later a Mower county farmer.
John F. passed through the usual experiences of the average farmer boy, worked on the farm, attended the district schools and grew to healthy young manhood.
He worked for a time in an elevator and then engaged in the business which he still conducts.
Mr. Fairbanks married Mary Vaughn, daughter of Albert Vaughn, a native of Virginia, and they have two sons, Harold V. and Rodney Dean.
Mr. Fairbanks is an Odd Fellow, and for many years has served on the Austin school board. He is a member of the Methodist church and of the Republican party.
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