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Encyclopedia Britannica



FAIRFIELD

This article appears in Volume V10, Page 133 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: EUD-FAT
FAIRFIELD , a city and the county-seat of Jefferson county, Iowa, U.S.A., about 51 m. W. by N. of Burlington. Pop. (1890) 3391; (19o0) 4689, of whom a06 were foreign-born and S4 were
negroes; (1go5) 5009; (1910) 4970. Area, about 2.25 sq. m. Fairfield is served by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, and the Chicago,
Rock
 
Island
  & Pacific railways, The city is in a blue grass country, in which much live stock is bred; and it is an important market for draft horses. It is the seat of
Parsons
  College (Presbyterian, co-educational, 1875), endowed by
Lewis
  Baldwin
Parsons
 , Sr. (17981855), a merchant of
Buffalo
 , N.Y. The college offers classical, philosophical and scientific courses, and has a school of music and an academic department; in 19071908 it had 19 instructors and 257 students, of whom 93 were in the college and 97 were in the school of music. Fairfield has a
Carnegie
  library (1892), and a museum with a collection of laces. Immediately E. of the city is an attractive Chautauqua Park, of 30 acres, with an auditorium capable of seating about 4000 persons; and there is an annual Chautauqua assembly. The
principal
  manufactures of Fairfield are farm waggons, farming implements, drain-tile, malleable iron,
cotton
  gloves and mittens and
cotton
  garments. The municipality owns its water-works and an electric-lighting plant. Fairfield was settled in 1839; was incorporated as a town in 1847; and was first chartered as a city in the same year.
See Charles H. Fletcher, Jefferson County, Iowa: Centennial History (Fairfield, 1876).


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