Biographical Sketch of J. P. Fairchild, St. Joseph, Buchanan County, MO

>From "History of Buchanan County, Missouri, Published 1881, St. Joseph
Steam Printing Company, Printers, Binders, Etc., St. Joseph, Missouri.
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J. P. Fairchild, inventor of the Boss Water Sprinkler, was born in
Illinois in 1837, and received a good education and learned the trade
of stone cutting.  In 1866, he went to St. Louis and engaged in the
street sprinkling business with the Shureman Bros., with forty-five
wagons.  Mr. Fairchild, after experiencing the inconvenience of using
the common sprinkler, set about the improvement of it.  In 1880, he
matured his plans, made a working machine, got it patented, and now
has a carriage and tank which is not only admired by all, but its
work is perfection itself.  It has been adopted here, and in Keokuk,
Iowa, Oskaloosa, Atchison, and some other cities, giving great satis-
faction.  He expects by another season to be able to supply the 
large increasing demand.  He is now running five of his wagons in the
city, which are not only in appearance a credit to the city, but their
work is more natural than a shower itself.  Such improvements reflect
great credit upon our inventor, and gives character to a city and the
whole country.  Mr. Fairchild has chosen this city for his future home.
He is a man of energy and enterprise, and is a worthy acquisition to
the business enterprises of this growing city.  He married Miss Matilda
Mooney, daughter of Jonathan Mooney, a merchant of St. Louis.  They 
have, by this happy union, seven children:  Ida May, Florence Belle,
Mary louisa, Laura Emma, John Arthur, Louis Charles and Herbert Davis.

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