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Fairchild, David Grandison

Subject ID: 20578

Last Name: Fairchild
First Name: David
Middle Names: Grandison
Birth Date: 7 April 1869
Birth Place: Lansing, Michigan
Death Date: 6 August 1954
Death Place: Miami, Florida
Gender: male
HI Archives Collection #: #12, 48, 163, 187, 273
Other Holdings: Journal w/ home garden notes at Wash. D.C., Museum of Natural History (see card)
Notes: #12 -Fairchild Letters, 1900-1925 (FA online). #34, box 2 -letters (12) from J. Rock to Fairchild, 1920’s. #1, box 1 - corres. w/ Paul Allen (14 items); 1941, 1953. Charles Swingle Coll. #166, ff1 -postcard from Fairchild re. Lathrop, 1898; ff 18 -letters (2) from Fairchild, 1947. #61, box 1, ff3 -letters to M.M. Blaine (11); 1929-36, 1944, 1952. #48, ff 23 -letters (2) to E.A. Menninger; 1942, 1953. Popenoe Coll. #204, ff 93-94 -corres. w/ Fairchild family, 1911-1961; ff 22, ff 257. F. L. Lewton Coll. #187- letters (4); 1912, 1919, 1932.

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Collections #12 , 48

Alternate Names

  • Fairchild, D.
  • Fairchild, David
  • Fairchild, David G.
  • Fairchild, David Grandison
  • Fairchild, D. G.
  • Fairchild, Mr. D. G.

Specialties

Economic Botany, Horticulture, Mycology, Plant Collection, Plant Exploration, Tropical Fruits