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LEFT FAIBFAX 89 FAIBY was inarked by the highest sense of honor and humanity. During the Com- monwealth Cromwell treated him with contempt. After Cromwell's death, when it became evident that the restoration of the monarchy was the general wish, he came forward to co-operate in bringing about that event. It was through his in- fluence mainly that the Irish brigade for- sook Lambert and joined Monk's army. Fairfax then seized York on the royal behalf; was made a member of the heal- ing Parliament; and was nominated head of the committee appointed to wait upon Charles II. at The Hague and in- vite him to the throne of England. On the Restoration he withdrew altogether from active life. He wrote "Short Memorials" of his life, etc. He died near York, England, Nov. 12, 1671. FAIRFAX, THCMAS, 6th Baron of Cameron; born in England in 1691; was educated at Oxford and was a con- tributor to Addison's "Spectator." Dis- appointed in England, he came to America and settled on a vast landed estate in Virginia which he had inherited from his mother, a daughter of Lord Cul- peper. It was there, at Greenway Court, that Washington first met him. Between the two there sprang up a warm friend- ship, and when, years later, he learned that Washington had captured Corn- wallis, he was overcome with emotion, and called to his body-servant to carry him to his bed, "for I am sure," he said, "it is time for me to die." He died at his lodge, Greenway Court, in Frederick CO., Va., Dec. 12, 1782. The 11th Lord Fairfax and Baron of Cameron who succeeded his brother to the baronetcy in 1869, and who died in Northampton, Md., Sept. 28, 1900, like his American predecessors, made no claim to the title. FAIRFIELD, a town and port of entry in Fairfield co., Conn., on Long Island Sound, and on the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad; 52 miles N. E. of New York. It contains the Pequot and Memorial libraries, National and savings banks, a stone powder house and four other buildings constructed dur- ing the Revolutionary period. It was founded in 1639. In 1779 it was burned by Governor Tryon. Pop. (1910) 6,134; (1920) 11,47.5. FAIRFIELD, a city of Iowa, the county-seat of JeflFerson co. It is on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, and the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroads. Its industi'ies include the manufacture of agricultural implements, wagons, pumps, washing machines, gloves, brooms, etc. It is the seat of Parsons College, and has a court house, county jail, hospital, public library, and other public buildings. Pop. (1910) 4,970; (1920) 5,948. FAIR HAVEN, a town in Bristol co., Mass.; on Buzzards Bay, at the mouth of the Acushnet river, and on the New York, New Haven and Hartford rail- road; 60 miles S. of Boston and opposite New Bedford, with which it is connected by bridges. Here are the Millicent Pub- lic Library, several banks, churches, and a newspaper. It has manufactories of glass, castings, nails, and tacks. The British were here repulsed by Maj. Israel Fearing on Sept. 7, 1778. Pop. (1910) 5,122; (1920) 7,291. FAIR ISLE, a small island in the North Atlantic, lying between the Shet- land and Orkney Isles, 22 miles from Sumburgh Head. It is 4 miles long by a breadth of IVi. Here (1588) the Duke of Medina, admiral of the Spanish Ar- mada, was shipwrecked. FAIRMONT, a city of West Virginia, the county-seat of Marion co. It is situ- ated on both sides of the Monongahela river, and is on the New York Central, the Monongahela Valley, and the Balti- more and Ohio railroads. The river is spanned by a steel bridge. Its industries include coal mining, and the manufac- ture of flour, lumber, iron, glass, cigars, etc. It is the seat of the State normal school, and has a hospital, training school for nurses, excellent school build- ings, and the State miners' hospital. Pop. (1910) 9,711; (1920) 17,851. FATRMOUNT COLLEGE, an institu- tion for higher education at Wichita, Kan., founded in 1892 as a preparatory school. It took its present form and name in 1896. In the autumn of 1919 there were 252 students and 19 instruc- tors. President, W. H. Rollins, D.D. FAIRY, a fay; an imaginary being or spirit, supposed to assume a human form, dance in meadows, steal infants, and play a variety of pranks; an en- chantress. In the traditional mythology of the nations of western Europe, fairies (the elves of the Anglo-Saxons) were generally believed to be a kind of inter- mediate beings, partaking both of the nature of men and spirits, having mate- rial bodies, and yet possessed of the power of making themselves invisible. They were remarkably small in stature, with fair complexions, and generally clothed in green. Their haunts were be- lieved to be groves, verdant meadows, and the slopes of hills ; and their great diver- sion, dancing hand-in-hand in a circle. The traces of their tiny feet were sup-