Lincoln County WY Archives Biographies.....Fairchild, Joel E. (Jr.) 
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Author: Bowen & Co. (1903)

JOEL E. FAIRCHILD, JR.

   Joel E. Fairchild of this review is a son of the Abigah and Catherine
Fairchild referred to above. He was born in Wilkes county, North Carolina, in
1836, and was reared to agricultural pursuits 011 the family homestead. He early
became familiar with the varied duties of the farm and grew up in the full
understanding that man should earn his bread by honest toil. Under the tutelage
of honorable God-fearing parents he laid broad and deep a foundation of
usefulness and endeavored to make his life correspond to his highest ideal of
manly conduct. After remaining under the paternal roof until his twenty-third
year he started out for himself, choosing for a vocation the ancient and
honorable calling of husbandry, which he followed in his native slate until the
national atmosphere became murky with the smoke of impending Civil War. When the
great struggle of the sections ensued young Fairchild espoused the Southern
cause and in 1860 enlisted in Co. B, Thirty-seventh North Carolina Infantry,
with which he served until the Confederacy ceased to be, sharing with his
comrades all the vicissitudes and fortunes through which his regiment passed,
taking )>art in many noted campaigns, especially in Virginia, and participating
in some of the bloodiest battles in the annals of modern warfare, among them
being the Seven Days' fight in the Wilderness and the terrible battle of
Gettysburg, receiving a severe wound in the latter. Mr. Fairchild entered the
service as a private, but for bravery under many trying and dangerous
circumstances was gradually promoted until he became first lieutenant of his
company, in which capacity he was discharged when the Southern cause went down
with the surrender at Appomattox. After the war Mr. Fairchild returned to North
Carolina and resumed agricultural pursuits, remaining in his native county until
i8r«j, when he sold out and migrated to Booneville, Mo. Purchasing a farm near
that place, he engaged in agriculture upon quite an extensive scale and
continued the active prosecution of his labors until 1898, when he disposed of
his place and retired from further labor. As a farmer .Mr. Fairchild ranked with
the enterprising and successful men of his county, and by close application and
good management lie acquired a liberal share of worldly wealth, sufficient, in
fact, to place him in independent circumstances, so that he can pass the
remainder of his days in the enjoyment of that rest and quietude, which only men
who have battled long and successfully with the world know how to appreciate.
After selling his farm he moved to Booneville, where he made his home until
1899, when for the purpose of recuperating his health. he changed his residence
to Kemmerer, Wyo., where since that year he has lived greatly to his physical
advantage, the clear, bracing mountain air being peculiarly adapted to the
building up and revivifying of his declining energies. Mr. Fairchild was married
in 1854 with Miss Frances Phillips of North Carolina, a daughter of William and
Jemima (Yates) Phillips, both natives of that state. This union was terminated
by the death of Mrs. Fairchild, who entered into rest in 1873, at the age of
forty-two, leaving six children: George W., May, Hamilton, Ellen, Katie and
John. On December 31, 1876, Mr. Fairchild was again married, choosing for his
companion Miss Lucy Waller of Missouri, a daughter of Benjamin and Lucy Waller,
natives of Kentucky, a union which has resulted in one daughter, Ray Fairchild.
In politics Mr. Fairchild has been a Democrat ever since old enough to cast a
ballot and sees no reason why he should not continue to support the old historic
party of the people. He has never been an aspirant for official honors or public
distinction, but has labored earnestly for his friends with ambition in those
directions. He has borne well his part in life and exercised a wholesome moral
influence wherever his lot has been cast. A man of unquestioned veracity and
pronounced integrity, he has won a place in the esteem of his fellows which time
will strengthen, and all who have the pleasure of his acquaintance speak in
complimentary terms of his sterling qualities and manly worth.


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PROGRESSIVE MEN OF THE STATE OF WYOMING

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A people who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors, will
never achieve anything worthy to he remembered with pride by remote
generations.—.MACAULAY.

CHICAGO, ILL.
A. W. BOWEN & CO.
PUBLISHERS AND ENGRAVERS
1903


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