FAIRBANKS Robert P.

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The Fairbanks Family

Posted by Dick Campbell on Fri, 18
Jun 1999

Robert Fairbanks was born at Sandy Lake, Minn., on the 21st day of
September 1825. When he was quite young he was sent to Fredonia, New
York, to be educated, and at the age of twenty he was employed at the
headquarters of the American Fur company at La Pointe, Wisconsin, as
clerk. In 1846 he married Catherine Beaulieu the youngest sister of
C. H. and Paul Beaulieu. He remained at La Pointe until 1851, when he
removed to Crow Wing with his family where he remained in trade for a
number of years, where he had a comfortable home and family of seven
children, four sons and three daughters.

In 1868 he removed to White Earth with his family, where he had taken
charge of the store belonging to Joseph Wakefield, which he ran for a
year, when he opened up a store of his own which he ran until he
died.

Robert married BEAULIEU Catherine on 30 Jun 1846 in LaPointe, Wisc Territory, MI. Catherine (daughter of BEAULIEU Bazile Hudon Dit and Skies) Margaret Racine (O-ge-mau-gee-shi-go-quay) (Queen of the) was born in 1826 in WI; died in Jan 1902 in White Earth, Becker Co., MN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. FAIRBANKS Margaret Elizabeth
2. FAIRBANKS Sophia was born on 20 Oct 1851; died on 04 Feb 1920.