from Kansas State, Fairchild became a professor of English and vice president at Berea College in Berea, Kentucky. While at Berea, Macmillan Company published Fairchild's book Rural Wealth and Welfare: Economic Principles Illustrated and Applied in Farm Life in 1900. Family life In 1863, Fairchild married Charlotte Pearly Halsted. They had five children: Agnes Mary Fairchild Kirshner Edwin Milton Paul Halsted David Grandison, a noted biologist and plant explorer Anna Dalla Fairchild White Legacy Fairchild Hall, on the Kansas State campus, is named in his honor. The building, completed during his tenure in 1894, is home to the K-State Graduate School. The Fairchild Theater, on the Michigan State campus, is also named in his honor. References Fairchild, David. (1947). The World Grows Round My Door: The Story of the Kampong, A Home on the Edge of the Tropics. "Fairchild, George Thompson." American National Biography (1999). "Fairchild, George Thompson." National Cyclopaedia of American Biography (1936). Fairchild, George Thompson."Populism in a State Educational Institution, the Kansas State Agricultural College." American Journal of Sociology 3:3 (Nov. 1897). External links Brief biography Family biography Presidents of Kansas State University George Oberlin College alumni 1838 births 1901 deaths