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Marin Journal
Saturday, March 16, 1901
Death of W. R. Fairbanks
Death claimed another of the pioneers, and a substantial citizen of Tomales Wednesday morning. W. R. Fairbanks passed away after having been a long sufferer from a cancer in the mouth. He was born at Hyde Park, Vermont Dec. 29, 1838, and was left an orphan when a mere boy. At the age of 10 he came to California via the Horn in company with the Heyman boys. After spending a few years in the mines he went to New York for ten years, and then returned to California, locating in Tomales where for seven years he ran the stage line to Petaluma. In 1873 he purchased the ranch on which his family still resides one and one-half miles east of Tomales. He married Beluida (sic) Scanlin Jan. 12 (sic), 1872. His wife and seven children survive him. One of his daughters, Mary E. is the wife of Chas. G. Martin, of San Antonio.
The funeral will take place on Friday.
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Pioneers of Marin County, California, published 1880, has a sketch about him. It reports that the Heyman boys were his cousins; they arrived in San Francisco on May 14, 1848; the mines to which they went were the Mokelumne Hill mines; he went to New York in 1855; he married Belinda Scanlin, native of Ireland, on Jan. 22, 1872; their children (as of 1880) were George Henry, born Nov. 9, 1872; William B., born Sept. 29, 1874; Joseph F., born March 26, 1876; and Mary E., born March 21, 1878.
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