OBITUARY – BENJAMIN THOMAS FAIRCHILD – AMERICAN PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION – April 1939 (page 257)
BENJAMIN T. FAIRCHILD.
Benjamin Thomas Fairchild, president of Fairchild Brothers & Foster, died March 25th of a fractured skull suffered in a fall in his home in Greenwich, Conn. He was born the son of Thomas B. Fairchild and Susan Fairchild at Stratford, Conn. He graduated from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy in 1872 and entered service in the pharmacy of Caswell, Hazard & Co.
In 1878 Mr. Fairchild organized the manufacturing pharmaceutical company of Fairchild Brothers with his late brother Samuel W. Fairchild, and subsequently a corporation was formed by the admission of Macomb G. Foster.
B.T. Fairchild was a horticulturist. He was treasurer of the Orange and Dutchess Garden Club, and a member of the Bedford (N.Y.) Garden Club, New York Botanical Garden, Garden Club of America, Brooklyn Botanical Garden and the Union League, New York. He affiliated with the AMERICAN PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION in 1875 and was its senior member at the time of his death.
Samuel W. Fairchild announced the Fairchild Pharmaceutical Scholarship in Great Britain and Ireland in 1904 and at the San Francisco meeting in 1915 a scholarship of the same value ($300) for the United States, and this value was increased to $500, effective in 1929, and continued annually.
Surviving are a sister, Miss Myrtis V. Fairchild of Stratford; two nephews, Benjamin T. Fairchild of Cold Spring Harbor, L.I., and William S. Fairchild of New York; and a niece, Mrs. Henry W. Butler of New York. Mrs. Fairchild died in 1920.
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Fairchild Wildflower Audubon Sanctuary, Greenwich, CT
A 135-acre sanctuary that boasts 8 miles of trails that pass through formerly abandoned farmland and a variety of wetland habitats
This is one of seven sanctuaries managed by the National Audubon Society in Greenwich. Benjamin T. Fairchild first developed the Fairchild Garden as a wildflower sanctuary on this property's abandoned farmland, which he purchased in 1890. After his death in 1939, Mrs. Elon Huntington Hooker, with the help of local garden clubs, raised the money to pay off the mortgage on the sanctuary. It was donated to the National Audubon Society in 1945. It is not a formal garden, but a natural area, with introduced wildflower species and some interesting rocks in the landscape.
The unique feature of this 135-acre sanctuary is its variety of wetland habitats. These include a stream, pond, wetland meadow, red maple swamp, hillside wetland, emergent freshwater marsh, and a wetland scrub thicket. The sanctuary also boasts 8 miles of trails that wind through deep shady gorges below the canopy of mature deciduous forest and a grove of white pines. The Fairchild Wildflower Audubon Sanctuary has become a favorite local birding hot spot in the late spring and early summer.
The property contains a red maple swamp, a freshwater pond, a hillside wetland, wetland meadow, wetland scrub thicket, emergent freshwater marsh, surface stream, and mature oak-beech-maple forest, and includes many beautiful granite outcrops and deep shady ravines. There are vernal ponds and healthy streams. Most of the wildlife found at Greenwich Audubon Center's Main Sanctuary can also be seen here.
The open wetland meadows support a stunning array of associated plant species, including tussock sedge, cattails, and pink lady slipper orchids. This area is known as an excellent birding spot, especially during spring and fall migration.
Source: https://greenwich.audubon.org/fairchild-wildflower-sanctuary
BENJAMIN T. FAIRCHILD.
Benjamin Thomas Fairchild, president of Fairchild Brothers & Foster, died March 25th of a fractured skull suffered in a fall in his home in Greenwich, Conn. He was born the son of Thomas B. Fairchild and Susan Fairchild at Stratford, Conn. He graduated from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy in 1872 and entered service in the pharmacy of Caswell, Hazard & Co.
In 1878 Mr. Fairchild organized the manufacturing pharmaceutical company of Fairchild Brothers with his late brother Samuel W. Fairchild, and subsequently a corporation was formed by the admission of Macomb G. Foster.
B.T. Fairchild was a horticulturist. He was treasurer of the Orange and Dutchess Garden Club, and a member of the Bedford (N.Y.) Garden Club, New York Botanical Garden, Garden Club of America, Brooklyn Botanical Garden and the Union League, New York. He affiliated with the AMERICAN PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION in 1875 and was its senior member at the time of his death.
Samuel W. Fairchild announced the Fairchild Pharmaceutical Scholarship in Great Britain and Ireland in 1904 and at the San Francisco meeting in 1915 a scholarship of the same value ($300) for the United States, and this value was increased to $500, effective in 1929, and continued annually.
Surviving are a sister, Miss Myrtis V. Fairchild of Stratford; two nephews, Benjamin T. Fairchild of Cold Spring Harbor, L.I., and William S. Fairchild of New York; and a niece, Mrs. Henry W. Butler of New York. Mrs. Fairchild died in 1920.
*****
Fairchild Wildflower Audubon Sanctuary, Greenwich, CT
A 135-acre sanctuary that boasts 8 miles of trails that pass through formerly abandoned farmland and a variety of wetland habitats
This is one of seven sanctuaries managed by the National Audubon Society in Greenwich. Benjamin T. Fairchild first developed the Fairchild Garden as a wildflower sanctuary on this property's abandoned farmland, which he purchased in 1890. After his death in 1939, Mrs. Elon Huntington Hooker, with the help of local garden clubs, raised the money to pay off the mortgage on the sanctuary. It was donated to the National Audubon Society in 1945. It is not a formal garden, but a natural area, with introduced wildflower species and some interesting rocks in the landscape.
The unique feature of this 135-acre sanctuary is its variety of wetland habitats. These include a stream, pond, wetland meadow, red maple swamp, hillside wetland, emergent freshwater marsh, and a wetland scrub thicket. The sanctuary also boasts 8 miles of trails that wind through deep shady gorges below the canopy of mature deciduous forest and a grove of white pines. The Fairchild Wildflower Audubon Sanctuary has become a favorite local birding hot spot in the late spring and early summer.
The property contains a red maple swamp, a freshwater pond, a hillside wetland, wetland meadow, wetland scrub thicket, emergent freshwater marsh, surface stream, and mature oak-beech-maple forest, and includes many beautiful granite outcrops and deep shady ravines. There are vernal ponds and healthy streams. Most of the wildlife found at Greenwich Audubon Center's Main Sanctuary can also be seen here.
The open wetland meadows support a stunning array of associated plant species, including tussock sedge, cattails, and pink lady slipper orchids. This area is known as an excellent birding spot, especially during spring and fall migration.
Source: https://greenwich.audubon.org/fairchild-wildflower-sanctuary
OBITUARY – BENJAMIN THOMAS FAIRCHILD – AMERICAN PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION – April 1939 (page 257)
BENJAMIN T. FAIRCHILD.
Benjamin Thomas Fairchild, president of Fairchild Brothers & Foster, died March 25th of a fractured skull suffered in a fall in his home in Greenwich, Conn. He was born the son of Thomas B. Fairchild and Susan Fairchild at Stratford, Conn. He graduated from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy in 1872 and entered service in the pharmacy of Caswell, Hazard & Co.
In 1878 Mr. Fairchild organized the manufacturing pharmaceutical company of Fairchild Brothers with his late brother Samuel W. Fairchild, and subsequently a corporation was formed by the admission of Macomb G. Foster.
B.T. Fairchild was a horticulturist. He was treasurer of the Orange and Dutchess Garden Club, and a member of the Bedford (N.Y.) Garden Club, New York Botanical Garden, Garden Club of America, Brooklyn Botanical Garden and the Union League, New York. He affiliated with the AMERICAN PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION in 1875 and was its senior member at the time of his death.
Samuel W. Fairchild announced the Fairchild Pharmaceutical Scholarship in Great Britain and Ireland in 1904 and at the San Francisco meeting in 1915 a scholarship of the same value ($300) for the United States, and this value was increased to $500, effective in 1929, and continued annually.
Surviving are a sister, Miss Myrtis V. Fairchild of Stratford; two nephews, Benjamin T. Fairchild of Cold Spring Harbor, L.I., and William S. Fairchild of New York; and a niece, Mrs. Henry W. Butler of New York. Mrs. Fairchild died in 1920.
*****
Fairchild Wildflower Audubon Sanctuary, Greenwich, CT
A 135-acre sanctuary that boasts 8 miles of trails that pass through formerly abandoned farmland and a variety of wetland habitats
This is one of seven sanctuaries managed by the National Audubon Society in Greenwich. Benjamin T. Fairchild first developed the Fairchild Garden as a wildflower sanctuary on this property's abandoned farmland, which he purchased in 1890. After his death in 1939, Mrs. Elon Huntington Hooker, with the help of local garden clubs, raised the money to pay off the mortgage on the sanctuary. It was donated to the National Audubon Society in 1945. It is not a formal garden, but a natural area, with introduced wildflower species and some interesting rocks in the landscape.
The unique feature of this 135-acre sanctuary is its variety of wetland habitats. These include a stream, pond, wetland meadow, red maple swamp, hillside wetland, emergent freshwater marsh, and a wetland scrub thicket. The sanctuary also boasts 8 miles of trails that wind through deep shady gorges below the canopy of mature deciduous forest and a grove of white pines. The Fairchild Wildflower Audubon Sanctuary has become a favorite local birding hot spot in the late spring and early summer.
The property contains a red maple swamp, a freshwater pond, a hillside wetland, wetland meadow, wetland scrub thicket, emergent freshwater marsh, surface stream, and mature oak-beech-maple forest, and includes many beautiful granite outcrops and deep shady ravines. There are vernal ponds and healthy streams. Most of the wildlife found at Greenwich Audubon Center's Main Sanctuary can also be seen here.
The open wetland meadows support a stunning array of associated plant species, including tussock sedge, cattails, and pink lady slipper orchids. This area is known as an excellent birding spot, especially during spring and fall migration.
Source: https://greenwich.audubon.org/fairchild-wildflower-sanctuary
BENJAMIN T. FAIRCHILD.
Benjamin Thomas Fairchild, president of Fairchild Brothers & Foster, died March 25th of a fractured skull suffered in a fall in his home in Greenwich, Conn. He was born the son of Thomas B. Fairchild and Susan Fairchild at Stratford, Conn. He graduated from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy in 1872 and entered service in the pharmacy of Caswell, Hazard & Co.
In 1878 Mr. Fairchild organized the manufacturing pharmaceutical company of Fairchild Brothers with his late brother Samuel W. Fairchild, and subsequently a corporation was formed by the admission of Macomb G. Foster.
B.T. Fairchild was a horticulturist. He was treasurer of the Orange and Dutchess Garden Club, and a member of the Bedford (N.Y.) Garden Club, New York Botanical Garden, Garden Club of America, Brooklyn Botanical Garden and the Union League, New York. He affiliated with the AMERICAN PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION in 1875 and was its senior member at the time of his death.
Samuel W. Fairchild announced the Fairchild Pharmaceutical Scholarship in Great Britain and Ireland in 1904 and at the San Francisco meeting in 1915 a scholarship of the same value ($300) for the United States, and this value was increased to $500, effective in 1929, and continued annually.
Surviving are a sister, Miss Myrtis V. Fairchild of Stratford; two nephews, Benjamin T. Fairchild of Cold Spring Harbor, L.I., and William S. Fairchild of New York; and a niece, Mrs. Henry W. Butler of New York. Mrs. Fairchild died in 1920.
*****
Fairchild Wildflower Audubon Sanctuary, Greenwich, CT
A 135-acre sanctuary that boasts 8 miles of trails that pass through formerly abandoned farmland and a variety of wetland habitats
This is one of seven sanctuaries managed by the National Audubon Society in Greenwich. Benjamin T. Fairchild first developed the Fairchild Garden as a wildflower sanctuary on this property's abandoned farmland, which he purchased in 1890. After his death in 1939, Mrs. Elon Huntington Hooker, with the help of local garden clubs, raised the money to pay off the mortgage on the sanctuary. It was donated to the National Audubon Society in 1945. It is not a formal garden, but a natural area, with introduced wildflower species and some interesting rocks in the landscape.
The unique feature of this 135-acre sanctuary is its variety of wetland habitats. These include a stream, pond, wetland meadow, red maple swamp, hillside wetland, emergent freshwater marsh, and a wetland scrub thicket. The sanctuary also boasts 8 miles of trails that wind through deep shady gorges below the canopy of mature deciduous forest and a grove of white pines. The Fairchild Wildflower Audubon Sanctuary has become a favorite local birding hot spot in the late spring and early summer.
The property contains a red maple swamp, a freshwater pond, a hillside wetland, wetland meadow, wetland scrub thicket, emergent freshwater marsh, surface stream, and mature oak-beech-maple forest, and includes many beautiful granite outcrops and deep shady ravines. There are vernal ponds and healthy streams. Most of the wildlife found at Greenwich Audubon Center's Main Sanctuary can also be seen here.
The open wetland meadows support a stunning array of associated plant species, including tussock sedge, cattails, and pink lady slipper orchids. This area is known as an excellent birding spot, especially during spring and fall migration.
Source: https://greenwich.audubon.org/fairchild-wildflower-sanctuary
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