Career
From the age of 16 he was employed as a printer with a short break in time when he served his country in the War of 1812. He was stationed at Sackett"s Harbor on Lake Ontario to oppose the landing of any British troops. He is known to have established a dozen or so newspapers.
Among those he started were The Ovid Bee, Trumansburg Advertiser, Cortland Advocate, Dansville Republican, Trumansburg Gazette, Wayne County Democrat, Chemung Democrat, and the Newark Herald.
Fairchild would set up a print shop in a community, run the paper for a year or so, sell the paper and press and then move on. Fairchild help establish the Ganarga Mining Company, consisted of himself as president, Doctor Christopher C. Hyde, an experienced chemist as vice president, and Mahlon Doctorate. Fairchild, son of David Fairchild, was listed as secretary.
They left New York going to taking the ship Crescent City for Chagresm, across the Isthmus to Panama and then on to San Francisco They arrived safely on July 26, 1849, a trip of over 4 months. He died in on September 17, 1866 in Pilot Hill, El Dorado Company