Box 1

Pages from a diary maintained by Phoebe Haynes, E.H. Fairchild's niece by marriage, with annotations by F.F. Hall (20 small pages, March, 1885). Haynes was employed in the Music Department at Oberlin and made a trip to Berea for a musical program. Also a note on her sister Caroline Willard Haynes, who taught at Berea, attributed to W.E. Barton.

Three letters by grandsons Henry Pratt Fairchild and F.F. Hall (1931, 1936) along with copies or reprints of miscellaneous articles by H.P.F. from Harper's, The Forum, Atlantic, etc., and clippings about his daughter; articles about EHF's nephew David Fairchild, his books, and the Fairchild Gardens; and a booklet published by the Rev. E.M. Fairchild, nephew.

An incomplete letter praising Fairchild and Berea, perhaps from General S.C. Armstrong, a founder of Hampton Institute.

3 reprints from Sunday Afternoon

Publicity circulars and advertisements of courses available at Berea College from the first seven years of Fairchild's presidency are collected here, along with Fairchild's history of the founding of Berea and an address by his brother urging individual’s to direct their religious feeling toward social action.

Reminiscences of Mrs. R. W. McLeod, 1946, recalling Arthur Fairchild, Julia Fairchild, and other family members. Letter from Grace Ohl (great granddaughter of EHF) about the location of family Bibles.

List of legatees of Helen V Fairchild, sister-in-law. Obituary of Walter Fairchild, grandson. Clipping re visit to Berea by Dr. Fred Fairchild, grandson.

1874 reprint of address by JH Fairchild, President of Oberlin College, to the National Council of Congregational Churches: Needed Phases of Christianity

Written by E.H. Fairchild. A printed appeal for assistance for the college is tipped in, with a handwritten note to President Tuttle, then president of Hanover(?) College.

Genealogy of the Fairchild family, with biographical information, compiled by Prof. Richard Sears of Berea College, from immigrant ancestor Thomas Fairchild, Sr., through the grandchildren of President Edward Henry Fairchild.