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Name
  
George Fairbanks


Role
  
Author

George Rainsford Fairbanks

Died
  
1906, Sewanee, Tennessee, United States

Books
  
History of Florida from Its Di, The History and Antiquitie, History of the University, The History and Antiquitie, The History and Antiquitie

George Rainsford Fairbanks (1820 – 1906 ) was a lawyer, Clerk of the Circuit Court, Florida State Senator, president of Florida Fruit Growers Association and the Florida Fruit Exchange; editor of the Florida Mirror; the author of books on Florida history; and the founder and president of Florida Historical Society. He lived in Fernandina Beach. He is listed as a Great Floridian.

Life and career

Senator David Yulee brought Fairbanks, a Confederate Major during the U.S. Civil War, to Fernandina in 1879 to run the town's Florida Mirror newspaper. Fairbanks was also a historian, an educator, a former state senator, and one of the founders of the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. He and his granddaughter witnessed the fire that destroyed downtown Jacksonville 40 miles away from the house he built in 1885. The Fairbanks House was converted into a Bed & Breakfast and is on Amelia Island's Fernandina Beach at 227 South Seventh Street. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

References

George Rainsford Fairbanks Wikipedia


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