The following is from the book, Heroic Willards of '76,
compiled by James Andrew Phelps, New York 1917.
The following is from the book, Heroic Willards of '76,
compiled by James Andrew Phelps, New York 1917.
Simon Fairman, Inventor was born at Killingly, Conn., ...his advent in a community noted for thrift, and their ready adaptation of present means to the attainment of desirable ends; with his endowment of mechanical genius, of a high order have given world-wide use to many of his inventions. The book goes on to mention his spiral self-centering chucks patented in 1840.
In a newspaper article it says that he made the first steam wagon ever seen in the Stafford vicinity in 1840 and had a patent on it. I will have to go hunting to find out about the rest of his patents.
Simon Fairman was born March 4 1792 in Killingly, Windham County, Connecticut. His father was also named Simon and his mother was Eleanor Washburn, daughter of Simon Washburn and Mary Warner. His parents and Washburn grandparents lived in Stafford and that probably explains his move there from New York. He died February 25, 1876 in Stafford, Tolland County, Connecticut.
Harriet Wright Fairman was born June 21, 1796 at Waterford, NY. On November 26, 1814 she married Simon Fairman in Troy,, NY.
Mrs Fairman died August 1, 1863 at West Stafford, CT.
Handwritten 1897 Fairman Genealogy, 1897
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