negroes; (1905) 5009; (1910) 4970. Area, about 2.25 sq. m. Fairfield is served by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, and the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railways. The city is in a blue grass country, in which much live stock is bred; and it is an important market for draft horses. It is the seat of Parsons College (Presbyterian, co-educational, 1875), endowed by Lewis Baldwin Parsons, Sr. (1798–1855), a merchant of Buffalo, N.Y. The college offers classical, philosophical and scientific courses, and has a school of music and an academic department; in 1907–1908 it had 19 instructors and 257 students, of whom 93 were in the college and 97 were in the school of music. Fairfield has a Carnegie library (1892), and a museum with a collection of laces. Immediately E. of the city is an attractive Chautauqua Park, of 30 acres, with an auditorium capable of seating about 4000 persons; and there is an annual Chautauqua assembly. The principal manufactures of Fairfield are farm waggons, farming implements, drain-tile, malleable iron, cotton gloves and mittens and cotton garments. The municipality owns its waterworks and an electric-lighting plant. Fairfield was settled in 1839; was incorporated as a town in 1847; and was first chartered as a city in the same year.
See Charles H. Fletcher, Jefferson County, Iowa: Centennial History (Fairfield, 1876).
FAIRHAVEN, a township in Bristol county, Massachusetts,
U.S.A., on New Bedford Harbor, opposite New Bedford. Pop.
(1890) 2919; (1900) 3567 (599 being foreign-born); (1905, state
census) 4235; (1910) 5122. Area, about 13 sq. m. Fairhaven is
served by the New York, New Haven & Hartford railway and by
electric railway to Mattapoisett and Marion, and is connected
with New Bedford by two bridges, by electric railway, and by
the New York, New Haven & Hartford ferry line. The principal
village is Fairhaven; others are Oxford, Naskatucket and
Sconticut Neck. As a summer resort Fairhaven is widely known.
Among the principal buildings are the following, presented to
the township by Henry H. Rogers (1840–1909), a native of
Fairhaven and a large stockholder and long vice-president of the
Standard Oil Co.; the town hall, a memorial of Mrs Rogers, the
Rogers public schools; the Millicent public library (17,500 vols.
in 1908), a memorial to his daughter; and a fine granite memorial
church (Unitarian) with parish house, a memorial to his mother;
and there is also a public park, of 13 acres, the gift of Mr Rogers.
From 1830 to 1857 the inhabitants of Fairhaven were chiefly
engaged in whaling, and the fishing interests are still important.
Among manufactures are tacks, nails, iron goods, loom-cranks,
glass, yachts and boats, and shoes.
Fairhaven, originally a part of New Bedford, was incorporated as a separate township in 1812. On the 5th of September 1778 a fleet and armed force under Earl Grey, sent to punish New Bedford and what is now Fairhaven for their activity in privateering, burned the shipping and destroyed much of New Bedford. The troops then marched to the head of the Acushnet river, and down the east bank to Sconticut Neck, where they camped till the 7th of September, when they re-embarked, having meanwhile dismantled a small fort, built during the early days of the war, on the east side of the river at the entrance to the harbour. On the evening of the 8th of September a landing force from the fleet, which had begun to set fire to Fairhaven, was driven off by a body of about 150 minute-men commanded by Major Israel Fearing; and on the following day the fleet departed. The fort was at once rebuilt and was named Fort Fearing, but as early as 1784 it had become known as Fort Phoenix; it was one of the strongest defences on the New England coast during the war of 1812. The township of Acushnet was formed from the northern part of Fairhaven in 1860.
See James L. Gillingham and others, A Brief History of the Town of Fairhaven, Massachusetts (Fairhaven, 1903).
FAIRHOLT, FREDERICK WILLIAM (1814–1866), English
antiquary and wood engraver, was born in London in 1814.
His father, who was of a German family (the name was originally
Fahrholz), was a tobacco manufacturer, and for some years
Fairholt himself was employed in the business. For a time he
was a drawing-master, afterwards a scene-painter, and in 1835
he became assistant to S. Sly, the wood engraver. Some pen
and ink copies made by him of figures from Hogarth’s plates led
to his being employed by Charles Knight on several of his
illustrated publications. His first published literary work was
a contribution to Hone’s Year-Book in 1831. His life was one
of almost uninterrupted quiet labour, carried on until within a
few days of death. Several works on civic pageantry and some
collections of ancient unpublished songs and dialogues were
edited by him for the Percy Society in 1842. In 1844 he was
elected fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. He published an
edition of the dramatic works of Lyly in 1856. His principal
independent works are Tobacco, its History, and Association
(1859); Gog and Magog (1860); Up the Nile and Home Again
(1862); many articles and serials contributed to the Art Journal,
some of which were afterwards separately published, as Costume
in England (1846); Dictionary of Terms in Art (1854). These
works are illustrated by numerous cuts, drawn on the wood by
his own hand. His pencil was also employed in illustrating
Evans’s Coins of the Ancient Britons, Madden’s Jewish Coinage,
Halliwell’s folio Shakespeare and his Sir John Maundeville,
Roach Smith’s Richborough, the Miscellanea Graphica of Lord
Londesborough, and many other works. He died on the 3rd of
April 1866. His books relating to Shakespeare were bequeathed
to the library at Stratford-on-Avon; those on civic pageantry
(between 200 and 300 volumes) to the Society of Antiquaries;
his old prints and works on costume to the British Museum;
his general library he desired to be sold and the proceeds devoted
to the Literary Fund.
FAIRMONT, a city and the county-seat of Marion county,
West Virginia, U.S.A., on both sides of the Monongahela river,
about 75 m. S.E. of Wheeling. Pop. (1890) 1023; (1900) 5655,
of whom 283 were negroes and 182 foreign-born; (1910) 9711.
It is served by the Baltimore & Ohio railway. Among its manufactures
are glass, machinery, flour and furniture, and it is an
important shipping point for coal mined in the vicinity. The
city is the seat of one of the West Virginia state normal schools. Fairmont was laid out as Middletown in 1819, became the county-seat of the newly established Marion county in 1842, received its present name about 1844, and was chartered as a city in 1899.
FAIR OAKS, a station on a branch of the Southern railway, 6 m. E. of Richmond, Virginia, U.S.A. It is noted as the site of one of the battles of the Civil War, fought on the 31st of May and the 1st of June 1862, between the Union (Army of the Potomac) under General G. B. McClellan and the Confederate forces (Army of Northern Virginia) commanded by General J. E. Johnston. The attack of the Confederates was made at a moment when the river Chickahominy divided the Federal army into two unequal parts, and was, moreover, swollen to such a degree
as to endanger the bridges. General Johnston stationed part
of his troops along the river to prevent the Federals sending aid to the smaller force south of it, upon which the Confederate attack, commanded by General Longstreet, was directed. Many accidents, due to the inexperience of the staff officers
and to the difficulty of the ground, hindered the development of
Longstreet’s attack, but the Federals were gradually driven
back with a loss of ten guns, though at the last moment reinforcements
managed to cross the river and re-establish the line of
defence. At the close of the day Johnston was severely wounded,
and General G. W. Smith succeeded to the command. The
battle was renewed on the 1st of June but not fought out. At
the close of the action General R. E. Lee took over the command
of the Confederates, which he held till the final surrender in
April 1865. So far as the victory lay with either side, it was
with the Union army, for the Confederates failed to achieve
their purpose of destroying the almost isolated left wing of
McClellan’s army, and after the battle they withdrew into the
lines of Richmond. The Union losses were 5031 in killed,
wounded and missing; those of the Confederates were 6134.
The battle is sometimes known as the battle of Seven Pines.
FAIRŪZĀBĀDĪ [Ābū–ṭ–Ṭāhir ibn Ibrahīm Majd ud-Dīn ul-Fairūzābādī] (1329–1414), Arabian lexicographer, was born at Kārazīn near Shiraz. His student days were spent in Shiraz, Wāsiṭ, Bagdad and Damascus. He taught for ten years in
