CLASS OF 1876
William H. Gardiner, who has been for twenty-one years official photographer for the Western Electric Company in Chicago, has left the service of the company and opened an office for photographic work at Room 69. 88 Washington Street.
Samuel Marshall Fairfield died of bronchial consumption at San Fernando, Cal., March 21, 1908, after a long illness, which he bore with manly courage and Christian patience. Mr Fairfield was born in Lawrence, Mass.. July 13, 1853, and was prepared for college at the high school of that city under A. C. Perkins '59. In college he was a member of the glee club and the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, and maintained an honorable rank in scholarship, being a speaker at both Junior Exhibition and Commencement. For two years after graduation he studied law at Boston University, graduating in 1878 and being admitted to the bar. He had a successful practice in Boston until 1889, having his home in Maiden, Mass. He became strongly interested in politics of the Prohibition party, and was the candidate of that party for attorney general of Massachusetts from 1880 to 1886 inclusive, declining the nomination offered him in 1887. In 188-1 and 1888 he was a delegate to the national convention of the party. Having become engaged in the sale of investment securities, he removed to New York in 1889, and opened an office for that purpose. Becoming deeply interested in religious and humanitarian work, he entered the New York East Conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, and gave much time to Y. M. C. A., mission, and settlement work. In 1894 he gave up business to take charge of a young men's club at Great Neck, Long Island, where he had been living, remaining there to October, 1895. For a year from May 1,-1896, he was financial agent of the Five Points Mission. At the time of the Spanish War, in 1898, Mr. Fairfield went to Chickamauga Park in the. interest of the Christian Commission, and while there was appointed by the secretary of war chaplain of Leiter Hospital, at the Chickamauga camp. His health failing at this time, he sought relief in California, and for two and a half years acted as pastor of the Methodist church in San Fernando. His work there is spoken of as having great and permanent value for the community. He was then for a time in Pasadena, where he began the mission work which has resulted in the flourishing Lake Avenue church. He was also assistant at the First church, Pasadena, and had charge of the church at Lamanda Park. From the fall of 1902 to the ensuing spring he was at Jerome, Arizona. Returning then to New York he spent some months in the Adirondacks. The climate of California seemed on the whole more favorable, and he returned to San Fernando in the winter of 1904-5, engaging in the real estate business, and maintaining a brave but unsuccessful struggle with disease. Touching tributes to his beautiful character and unceasing labors for humanity were given in the local papers. February 14, 1877, Mr. Fairfield was married in Lawrence, Mass., to Miss Abbie A., daughter of John Beetle, who survives her husband. Their two children both died in infancy.
Secretary, Wto . H. Gardiner, 1245 East 72d St., Chicago
