Fairchild Family - David Fairchild, Fred Rogers Fairchild, George Fairchild, Lucius Fairchild, Muir S. Fairchild, Graham Fairchild (Paperback)

Chapters: David Fairchild, Fred Rogers Fairchild, George Fairchild, Lucius Fairchild, Muir S. Fairchild, Graham Fairchild, Henry Pratt Fairchild, James Fairchild, Henry Fairchild, Charles Fairchild, Herman Leroy Fairchild, Grandison Fairchild, Edwin M. Fairchild. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 47. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: David Grandison Fairchild (April 7, 1869 - August 6, 1954) was an American botanist and plant explorer. Fairchild was responsible for the introduction of more than 200,000 exotic plants and varieties of established crops into the United States, including soybeans, pistachios, mangos, nectarines, dates, bamboos, and flowering cherries. Certain varieties of wheat, cotton, and rice became especially economically important. Fairchild was born in Lansing, Michigan, and was raised in Manhattan, Kansas. He was a member of the Fairchild family, descendants of Thomas Fairchild of Stratford, Connecticut. He graduated from Kansas State College of Agriculture (B.A. 1888, M.S. 1889) where his father, George Fairchild, was president. He continued his studies at Iowa State and at Rutgers with his uncle, Byron Halsted, a noted biologist. He received an honorary D.Sc. degree from Oberlin College in 1915. Barbour Lathrop, a wealthy world traveler, persuaded Fairchild to become a plant explorer for the US Department of Agriculture. Lathrop and another wealthy patron, Allison Armor, financed some of Fairchild's many explorations for new plants to be introduced into the U.S. Fairchild was the author of a number of popular books on his plant collecting expeditions. Of those early travels, Fairchild wrote, "I am glad that I saw a few of the quiet places of the world before the coming of automobiles ...." In 1905, Fairchild married Marian, younger daughter of Alexander Graham ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=145044