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abolitionist Methodist clergyman
Calvin Fairbank, the fourth of the ten children of Chester and Betsey (Abbott) Fairbank, was born in Pike Township, Allegany County (now Eagle Township, Wyoming County), New York, whither his parents had migrated in 1815 from Vermont. From his mother, a zealous Methodist, he early became imbued with backwoods Methodism; and from a pair of escaped slaves, to whose cabin he was assigned during a quarterly meeting, he learned to abhor slavery.
Fie began this work in April 1837 while steering a lumber raft down the Ohio River; a negro on the Virginia bank, after a little coaxing, confessed a longing for freedom, was promptly taken aboard the raft, ferried to the Ohio side, and turned loose. Thereafter, as chance offered, Fairbank acted as passenger agent for the underground railway, smuggling runaway negroes from Virginia and Kentucky into Ohio, where he delivered them to Levi Coffin and other Abolitionists for transportation to Canada or to safer parts of the United States. At one time, with money supplied by Salmon P. Chase and others, he bought a young woman who otherwise would have been sold to a New Orleans procurer. He became an adept at disguising and concealing his charges in transit and was entirely without fear. Once he ventured as far as Little Rock, Arkansas, to find a young negro who had been deprived illegally of his freedom and conducted him safely from there to free soil. In all he effected the liberation of forty-seven slaves. In 1842 he was ordained as a Methodist elder. Gravitating to Oberlin, he enrolled in the preparatory department of the Collegiate Institute, but before the end of the year he was arrested in Lexington, Kentucky, for his part in the escape of Lewis Hayden and his family. He pleaded his own case, was convicted and sentenced to fifteen years in the Frankfort penitentiary, and served from Febuary 18, 1845, until August 23, 1849, when he was pardoned by Governor John J. Crittenden. Meanwhile his father had died of cholera at Lexington while working to secure his son’s release. Fairbank soon resumed his operations along the Ohio. He was kidnapped at Jeffersonville, Indiana, November 4, 1851, spirited into Kentucky, and again sent to the penitentiary on a fifteen-year sentence. This time he was systematically overworked, kept in a filthy cell, and frequently and mercilessly flogged. He was incarcerated until April 15, 1864, when he was pardoned by Lieuenant-Governor Richard T. Jacob. For some ten years he was an employee of missionary and benevolent societies in New York. Later he was superintendent and general agent of the Moore Street Industrial Institute of Richmond, Virginia. He lectured or preached from time to time, the cruelty and immorality of slaveholders and his own exploits being the staple of his discourses. In his old age he wrote an incoherent and untrustworthy but revealing autobiography. His last days were spent, close to poverty, in Angelica, Allegany County, New York.
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In 1842 he was ordained as a Methodist elder.
His emotionalism unchecked by education or good judgment, he developed into a militant Abolitionist, eager to distinguish himself, and was one of the few who engaged in the actual abduction of slaves.
On June 9, 1864, at Oxford, Ohio, he married Mandana Tilcston of Williamsburg, Massachusetts, to whom he had been engaged for twelve years.
She died September 29, 1876, in Williamsburg; and on June 5, 1879, Fairbank married Adeline Winegar.
