Education
Union College; Trinity College.
Union College; Trinity College.
He lived in Fernandina Beach. He is listed as a Great Floridian. Senator David Yulee brought Fairbanks, a Confederate Major during the United States. Civil War, to Fernandina in 1879 to run the town"s Florida Mirror newspaper.
Fairbanks was also a historian, an educator, a former state senator, and one of the founders of the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee.
The Fairbanks House was converted into a Bed & Breakfast and is on Amelia Island"s Fernandina Beach at 227 South Seventh Street. lieutenant was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
(Published in 1905, this is the history of the University ...)
