Mary Lord Fairbanks

Mary Lord Fairbanks, daughter of the late Prof. Arthur Fairbanks '86 and great-granddaughter of President Nathan Lord of Dartmouth, died August 5 in Watertown, Mass. Born March 27, 1890, in Heidelberg, Germany, when her father was acquiring a degree in that country, she was brought later in that year to Hanover for a brief period of residence until her family moved elsewhere in the succession of teaching positions occupied by her father, who ended the series, as he began it, following an interim of 18 years as director of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, as Professor of Fine Arts at Dartmouth.

Mary Fairbanks was an artist, being preeminently a painter, but also a musician and poet. Many have enjoyed her paintings in oils and water colors and her pen and ink sketches of scenes at the seashore and a considerable group of Hanover views, Ledyard Bridge, Dartmouth Hall and others, as seen from time to time in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. One of her sketches appears on the opposite page.

On the side of her father, after whom the new Fairbanks Hall on Elm Street is named, Mary Fairbanks was the granddaughter of Henry Fairbanks, Dartmouth 1853, a former professor and Trustee of the College, later one of the firm of the Fairbanks Scales Company, of St. Johnsbury, Vt. On the side of her mother, Elizabeth Moody Fairbanks, she was the great-granddaughter of Nathan Lord, President of Dartmouth College from 1828 to 1863. Her love of Hanover and the College is evident to all who read the bronze tablet on the President Lord House at 41 College Street, formerly located on the north side of the campus.