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Fairbanks mss., 1819-1939

Papers, 1819-1939, of Charles Warren Fairbanks and his son, Warren Charles Fairbanks at the Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

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Summary Information

Repository
Lilly Library (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Indiana University
1200 E. Seventh St.
Bloomington, IN 47405-5500
Phone: 812-855-2452
Fax: 812-855-3143
Email: liblilly@indiana.edu
http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly

Creator
Fairbanks, Charles W. (Charles Warren), 1852-1918.

Title
Fairbanks mss.,1819-1939

Collection No.
LMC 2200

Extent
150,006 items

Language
Materials are in English.

Abstract
Consists of letters and papers of Charles Warren Fairbanks, 1852-1918, U.S. senator from Indiana and vice president (1905-1909), and his son, Warren Charles Fairbanks, 1878-1938, newspaper publisher. The Charles Warren Fairbanks material, which comprises the bulk of the collection, consists of correspondence with prominent political figures, businessmen, bankers, friends, relatives and constituents; manuscript and printed speeches of Fairbanks; law office papers; bills and receipts; miscellaneous papers; newspaper clippings; invitations; calling cards; pictures; slides of Fairbanks's trip around the world, 1909-1910; and miscellaneous printed matter. The Warren Charles Fairbanks papers, 1918-1938, relate to the settlement of the estate of his father, Charles Warren Fairbanks; the Indianapolis News; the Fairbanks Blue ridge farms in Piatt County, Illinois; and the Fairbanks Valley farms in Greene County, Illinois.

Access Restrictions

This collection is open for research.

Biographical Note

U.S. senator from Indiana and vice-president of the United States.

Career of Charles Warren Fairbanks:

May 11, 1852 Born, in Union county, Ohio.
1872 A.B., Ohio Wesleyan University.
1872-1874 Employed as an Associated press agent, first at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and then at Cleveland, Ohio.
1874 Admitted to the Ohio bar.
October 6, 1874 Married Cornelia Cole.
1874 Established a law office in Indianapolis, Indiana; primarily a railroad attorney.
1888-1918 Active in politics.
1892, 1898 and 1914 Chairman, Indiana Republican conventions.
1893 Unsuccessful candidate for U.S. Senate.
1896, 1900, 1904, and 1912 Delegate to the Republican national conventions.
1896 Keynote speaker.
1897-1905 U.S. Senator from Indiana.
1898 Chairman, American commissioners on the United States and British joint high commission for the adjustment of Canadian questions.
1905-1909 Vice-president of the U.S.
1909-1910 Toured the world.
1916 Unsuccessful candidate for vice-president.
June 4, 1918 Died.

Charles Warren Fairbanks was also a trustee of Ohio Wesleyan University, American University, and DePauw University; a regent of the Smithsonian Institution; president of the Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis, Indiana, and the Indiana Forestry Association.

Arrangement

The collection is organized into the following series: I. Biographical; II. Correspondence; III. Speeches; IV. Financial; V. Law Office; VI. Post Office; VII. Memorabilia; VIII. Printed; IX. Scrapbooks.

Scope and Content Note

Consists of letters and papers of Charles Warren Fairbanks, 1852-1918, and his son, Warren Charles Fairbanks, 1878-1938, newspaper publisher. The Charles Warren Fairbanks material, which comprises the bulk of the collection, consists of correspondence with prominent political figures, businessmen, bankers, friends, relatives and constituents; manuscript and printed speeches of Fairbanks; law office papers; bills and receipts; miscellaneous papers; newspaper clippings; invitations; calling cards; pictures; slides of Fairbanks's trip around the world, 1909-1910; and miscellaneous printed matter. Most of the material belongs to Fairbanks' early years of practice as a railroad attorney and to his senatorial and vice- presidential periods. Subjects dealt with in the collection include federal and Indiana state politics and elections, 1884-1916; federal appointments; railroads; the Spanish American war; the annexation of the Philippine Islands by the United States; Puerto Rico; the United States and British joint high commission for the adjustment of Canadian questions, 1898; Indiana affairs, 1896-1906; temperance, 1898-1900; the tariff; speaking engagements; family affairs; the Indianapolis Switch and Frog Company, 1897-1910; the Springfield Foundry Company, 1897-1902; and the Fairbanks Building Company, 1907-1918.

The Warren Charles Fairbanks papers, 1918-1938, relate to the settlement of the estate of his father, Charles Warren Fairbanks; the Indianapolis News; the Fairbanks Blue ridge farms in Piatt County, Illinois; and the Fairbanks Valley farms in Greene County, Illinois.

The collection consists of both bound and unbound materials. Bound volumes of manuscript material include letterpress copybooks, July 13, 1874- May 10, 1918, inclusive; railroad case records, 1882-1890; campaign speeches, 1890-1892; seven volumes of typescripts of speeches of Charles Warren Fairbanks, entitled vols. I-II-III-IV-V, campaign of 1904, vol. VI, November 8, 1904-October 22, 1906, vol. VII, October 22, 1906-October 8, 1907; personal account books, 1874-1895, a household account book, December, 1906- February, 1907; a volume of copies of letters recommending Enoch G. Hogate for U.S. district judge for Indiana; a history of the Fairbanks building company, 1907-1918; and diaries, 1898, 1901, and 1911, of Robert Fairbanks, son of Charles Warren Fairbanks.

Bound volumes of printed material consist of scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, 1887-1910; invitations, 1898-1900; addresses of Charles Warren Fairbanks, June 18, 1894-December 29, 1905; the Western collegian, Ohio Wesleyan student paper, October 4, 1871-June 27, 1872; and a photograph album.

The unbound material in the collection is arranged in chronological order except for the following groups, which have been removed from the chronological arrangement and filed separately; bills and receipts, 1864-1938; papers relating to postoffice appointments and other postoffice matters in Indiana during Fairbanks' term in the U.S. Senate; miscellaneous printed material; calling cards and rubber stamps; invitations; newspaper clippings; and printed speeches of Fairbanks.

The postoffice papers are arranged alphabetically by names of postoffices or, in some cases where material is too general to be classified by postoffices, by names of counties. Under each postoffice or county, arrangement is chronological. Two types of cross references to the location of postoffice materials have been inserted in this postoffice file: 1) references to letters containing information on Indiana postoffices which have been left in the main chronological file because they also contain matter of interest on subjects other that postoffices: 2) references to letters in the postoffice file which deal with more than one postoffice.

The first box in the collection contains biographical and genealogical material relating to Charles Warren Fairbanks and his family.

Some of the material in the collection is filed in a folio folder.

A pencil sketch of Charles Warren Fairbanks as "Our next Vice President" by Frederick Victor Gillam may be found in the program of First Annual Dinner of Periodical Publishers' Association, New York City, Apr. 7, 1904.

Correspondents are indexed at the item level in the manuscripts index of the Lilly Library.

Note on Indexing Term - "Riley, James Whitcomb, 1849-1916": Charles Warren and Warren Charles Fairbanks both corresponded with Riley and their letters are included in the collection.

  • Indexing Terms

  • The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in IUCAT, the IU Libraries' online catalog. Materials about related topics, persons or places can be found by searching the catalog using these terms.

    • Names
    • Fairbanks Building Co.
    • Indiana, Bloomington, and Western Railway.
    • Indianapolis Switch and Frog Company
    • Republican Party (Ind.)
    • Daughters of the American Revolution.
    • Indiana, Bloomington, and Western Railway.
    • Fairbanks, Charles W. (Charles Warren), 1852-1918 --Correspondence.
    • Fairbanks, Warren Charles, 1878-1938.
    • Fairbanks, Cornelia Cole, d. 1913.
    • Foster, John Watson, 1836-1917.
    • Gresham, Walter Quintin, 1832-1895.
    • Harrison, Russell B. (Russell Benjamin), 1854-1936.
    • McKinley, William, 1843-1901.
    • Watson, James E. (James Eli), 1864-1948.
    • Riley, James Whitcomb, 1849-1916
    • Places
    • Indiana --Politics and government.
    • Philippines --Politics and government --1898-1935.
    • Puerto Rico --History.

Administrative Information

Acquisition Information
Gift. 1953, 1964.
Usage Restrictions
Prior arrangements are not necessary before coming to the Library, however, patrons from out of town are encouraged to communicate with the Library in advance of their visits to ascertain availability of materials.

Photocopying permitted only with permission of the Curator of Manuscripts, Lilly Library.

Preferred Citation
[Item], Fairbanks mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
Series: Box 1 Biographical
Life of Fairbanks. Biography

(3 folders)

Reminiscences: William McKinley
Reminiscences: William Howard Taft
Miscellaneous

(4 folders)

Series: Box 1 Correspondence

Arranged chronologically.

Mostly correspondence, but also contains other materials such as contracts, certificates, law briefs, financial materials, writings, etc. Consult the Manuscripts Index in the Library for dates of letters of individual correspondents. Only selected names have been indexed. Letterpress copybooks, a bound volume of carbon copy letters and oversize materials complete this series.

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Box 1 1858-1879, Aug. 
Box 2 1879, Sept.-1884, Aug. 
Box 3 1884, Sept.-1885, Nov. 
Box 4 1885, Dec.-1886, Aug. 15 
Box 5 1886, Aug. 16-1887, Nov. 
Box 6 1887, Dec. 1-1888, July 
Box 7 1888, Aug.-1889, June 
Box 8 1889, July-1890, Mar. 
Box 9 1890, Apr.-1891, Mar. 
Box 10 1891, Apr.-1892, Feb. 
Box 11 1892, Mar.-1893, Mar. 10 
Box 12 1893, Mar. 11-1894, May 
Box 13 1894, June 1-1895, June 20 
Box 14 1895, June 21-1896, May 
Box 15 1896, June-1897, Feb. 
Box 16 1897, Mar.-Apr. 
Box 17 1897, May-July 19 
Box 18 1897, July 20-Nov. 16 
Box 19 1897, Nov. 17-1898, Feb. 10 
Box 20 1898, Feb. 11-Apr. 26 
Box 21 1898, Apr. 27-June 28 
Box 22 1898, June 29-Oct. 17 
Box 23 1898, Oct. 18-1899, Feb. 10 
Box 24 1899, Feb. 11-Aug. 10 
Box 25 1899, Aug. 11-Dec. 16 
Box 26 1899, Dec. 17-1900, Jan. 
Box 27 1900, Feb. 1-Mar. 
Box 28 1900, Apr. 1-May 28 
Box 29 1900, May 29-Nov. 19 
Box 30 1900, Nov. 20-1901, Jan. 13 
Box 31 1901, Jan. 14-Mar. 5 
Box 32 1901, Mar. 6-June 28 
Box 33 1901, June 29-Dec. 3 
Box 34 1901, Dec. 4-1902, Feb. 21 
Box 35 1902, Feb. 22-May 5 
Box 36 1902, May 6-Nov. 
Box 37 1902, Dec. 1-1903, Jan. 29 
Box 38 1903, Jan. 30-June 
Box 39 1903, July 1-Dec. 22 
Box 40 1903, Dec. 23-1904, Mar. 25 
Box 41 1904, Mar. 26-Oct. 31 
Box 42 1904, Nov. 1-Dec. 17 
Box 43 1904, Dec. 18-1905, Mar. 13 
Box 44 1905, Mar. 14-Sept. 16 
Box 45 1905, Sept. 17-1906, Jan. 25 
Box 46 1906, Jan. 26-May 29 
Box 47 1906, May 30-Nov. 25 
Box 48 1906, Nov. 26-1907, Apr. 15 
Box 49 1907, Apr. 16-Oct. 10 
Box 50 1907, Oct. 11-1908, Mar. 8 
Box 51 1908, Mar. 9-Aug. 17 
Box 52 1908, Aug. 18-1909, Nov. 
Box 53 1909, Dec.-1911-June 15 
Box 54 1911, June 16-1912, Oct. 
Box 55 1912, Nov.-1922, Mar. 20 
Box 56 1922, Mar. 21-1923, Oct. 31 
Box 57 1923, Nov. 1-1930, Mar. 
Box 58 1930, Apr. 1-1931, Sept. 22 
Box 59 1931, Sept. 23-1932, Nov. 30 
Box 60 1932, Dec. 1-1934, June 30 
Box 61 1934, July 1-1938; n.d. 
Letterpress copybooks.

Dates given for bound volumes indicate span of dates represented in each volume.

Box 62 1874, July 13 - 1886, Aug. 1 

12 volumes

1874, July 13 - 1878, Aug. 2 
1874, July 28 - 1876, Aug. 16 
1878, Aug. 4 - 1883, Feb. 6 
1878, Sept. 14 - 1881, Jan. 20 
1882, Jan. 28 - 1882, Apr. 13 
1882, Apr. 13 - 1882, Aug. 15 
1882, Aug. 16 - 1883, Jan. 12 
1883, Jan. 10 - 1883, June 1 
1883, Feb. 21 - 1886, Aug. 1 
1883, Apr. 16 - 1883, Oct. 15 
1883, Oct. 15 - 1884, Jan. 18 
1884, Jan. 18 - 1884, Apr. 14 
Box 63 1884, Aug. 26 - 1891, Aug. 24 

10 volumes

1884, Aug. 26 - 1884, Oct. 30 
1885, Apr. 14 - 1885, July 29 
1885, July 23 - 1885, Nov. 27 
1885, July 29 - 1886, Dec. 1 
1885, Nov. 28 - 1886, Mar. 2 
1886, Mar. 2 - 1886, July 28 
1886, Mar. 2 - 1888, July 30 
1886, Mar. 2 - 1891, Aug. 24 
1886, July 5 - 1890, Oct. 8 
1886, Aug. 6 - 1888, Apr. 25 
Box 64 1887, Feb. 25 - 1892, July 8 

14 volumes

1887, Feb. 25 - 1887, June 4 
1887, Nov. 15 -1888, Feb. 28 
1888, Jan. 13 - 1888, May 26 
1888, Feb. 28 - 1888, Dec. 14 
1888, May 18 - 1889, Sept. 29 
1888, May 26 - 1891, Oct. 9 
1888, Sept. 3 - 1889, July 28 
1888, Oct. 31 - 1889, June 1 
1889, July 28 - 1890, Feb. 15 
1889, Sept. 30 - 1890, Oct. 14 
1890, Aug. 5 - 1891, Apr. 10 
1890, Oct. 15 - 1891, Oct. 10 
1891, Jan. 31 - 1892, Jan. 15 
1891, Oct. 21 - 1892, July 8 
Box 65 Oct. 19, 1891 - Feb. 25, 1897 

11 volumes

1891, Oct. 19 - 1898, July 16 
1891, May 2 - 1892,, Mar. 19 
1892, Jan. 16 - 1893, Jan. 18 
1892, July 17 - 1893, May 20 
1893, Jan. 28 - 1894, Apr. 19 
1893, May 27 - 1894, Apr. 5 
1894, Apr. 20 - 1894, Dec. 26 
1894, Nov. 9 - 1895, May 13 
1895, May 13 - 1895, Nov. 5 
1895, Nov. 5 - 1896, Mar. 21 
1897, Jan. 14 - 1897, Feb. 25 
Box 66 May 18, 1897 - Feb. 23, 1898 

6 volumes

1897, May 18 - 1897, June 4 
1897, June 4 - 1897, July 6 
1897, July 26 - 1898, Jan. 7 
1897, July 28 - 1897, Sept. 14 
1897, Sept. 18 - 1898, Jan. 25 
1898, Jan. 6 - 1898, Feb. 23 
Box 67 Apr, 18, 1898 - Nov. 19, 1899 

7 volumes

1898, Apr. 18 - 1898, June 8 
1898, May 28 - 1898, July 5 
1898, July 13 - 1899, Mar. 8 
1898, Dec. 20 - 1899, Feb. 8 
1899, Feb. 7 - 1899, Apr. 11 
1899, Mar. 4 - 1899, Aug. 25 
1899, Aug. 22 - 1899, Nov. 29 
Box 68 Nov. 28, 1899 - Apr. 20, 1901 

7 volumes

1899, Nov. 28 - 1899, Dec. 18 
1899, Dec. 6 - 1901, Nov. 22 
1900, Mar. 12 - 1900, Apr. 30 
1900, Apr. - 1900, June 
1900, June - 1900, Sept. 
1901, Jan. 14 - 1901, Feb. 12 
1901, Mar. 23 - 1901, Apr. 20 
Box 69 May 13, 1901 - Oct. 23, 1903 

6 volumes

1901, May 13 - 1901, July 27 
1902, Jan. 25 - 1902, Mar. 19 
1902, May 26 - 1902, Aug. 16 
1902, Aug. 16 - 1902, Dec. 12 
1902, Dec. 13 - 1903, Mar. 11 
1903, Mar. 12 - 1903, Oct. 23 
Box 70 Dec. 22, 1904 - May 10, 1918 

4 volumes

1904, Dec. 22 - 1905, Mar. 3 
1910, Nov. 7 - 1912, Oct. 7 
1912, Oct. 11 - 1914, Aug. 22 
1914, Aug. 7 - 1918, May 10 
Bound carbon copies
Box 70 1901, Dec. 31-1902, Mar. 18.  Letters recommending Enoch G. Hogate for U.S. District Judge for Indiana

1 volume

Box 107 Oversize folio. 1820-1909 
Series: Box 71 Speeches

Arranged by typescript, printed and bound typescripts.

Typescripts: 1892-1911 
Box 72 Typescripts: undated speeches; miscellaneous fragments of speeches and other writings
Box 73 Typescripts: miscellaneous fragments,...(cont.)
Printed: mostly pamphlets dated 1889-1916;  Addresses of Charles Warren Fairbanks, 1894, June 18-1905, Dec. 29 
Bound typescripts
Box 73 Fairbanks 1890 campaign speech; McKinley campaign speech: 1891, Oct. 28-31  (carbon)
Box 74-78 1904 

5 volumes

Box 79 1904, Nov. 8 - 1906, Oct. 22 
Box 80 1906, Oct. 22 - 1907, Oct. 8 
Series: Box 81 Financial
Bills and receipts
1864-1891 
Box 82 1892-1899 
Box 83 1900-1914 
Box 84 1915-1937 
Box 85 1938-1939 
Box 85 Bound volumes
Bills and receipts: 1884-1891 

2 volumes

Farm journal, 1927 

1 volume

Household expenses: Dec. 1906 - Feb. 1907 

1 volume

Indiana Bloomington & Western Railway, Co. accounts payable, June 19, 1882-June 1, 1884 

1 volume

Personal account books: 1879-1895  and 1873-1886 

2 volumes

Railroad accounts: 1887-1890 

1 volume

Series: Box 105 Law Office

Letterpress bound volumes of mostly legal briefs.

Hurd vs. I. B. & W. Ry Co. (Indiana, Bloomington and Western Railway Co.), 1886-1887 

1 volume

Law Cases: 1885-1887;  1885-1894 

2 volumes

Railroad Cases: 1883-1888;  1887-1890 

2 volumes

Series: Box 85 Post Office

Arranged alphabetically by the name of post offices or county of location

A
Box 86 B-C
Box 87 D-Ho
Box 88 Hu-Ma
Box 89 Me-Ri
Box 90 Ro-Wi
Box 91 Wo-Z
Series: Box 91 Memorabilia
Diary of Robert Fairbanks, 1898,  1901 
Diary and account book of Robert Fairbanks, 1911 
"History of the Fairbanks Building Company taken from the minutes from date of organization [1907] to Jan. 8, 1918." Typescript
Photographs

(4 folders)

Photograph album, undated
Presidential campaign pin
Two printer's blocks both with likenesses of Fairbanks
Program and autograph book from the Periodical Publishers' Association meeting, N.Y., 1904.  Contains pencil sketch of Fairbanks by Victor Gillam
Rubber stamps
Box 108 Lantern slides from Fairbanks' trip around the world, 1909-1910 
Series: Box 91 Printed

Additional printed materials may be found throughout the collection.

Miscellaneous printed tear sheets and pamphlets
Box 92 Miscellaneous printed tear sheets and pamphlets; calling cards; invitations, 1879-1906 
Box 93 Invitations, 1907-1934 

(see also: IX. Scrapbooks)

Box 94 Clippings, 1873-1936 

(see also: IX. Scrapbooks)

Box 106 Oversize. Western Collegian 1871, Oct. 4-1872, June 27.  Ohio Wesleyan student paper. Bound volume
Series: Box 95 Scrapbooks

Arranged roughly in chronological order. Dates given indicate span of dates represented in each volume.

Mostly newspaper clippings. Scrapbooks of clippings concerning Fairbanks' wife, Cornelia Cole Fairbanks in her two terms as President General of the Daughters of the American Revolution and an album of invitations completes this series.

1887 - 1898, Dec. 

10 volumes

1887 - 1900 
1894 - 1901 
1895 - 1896 
1895 - 1897 
1896, Apr. - July 
1897, Jan. 
1897, Mar. - 1898, Apr. 
1897, June - 1898, July 
1897, Sept. - 1898, Dec. 
1897, Oct. - 1898, Aug. 
Box 96 1898, Aug. - 1899, July 

6 volumes

1898, Aug. - Oct. 
1899  

2 volumes

1899, Jan. - Mar. 
1899, Feb. - June 
1899, May - July 
Box 97 1899, Aug. - 1902 

7 volumes

1899, Aug. - 1900, July 
1899 - 1900 
1899, Mar. - 1901, Jan. 
1899 - 1902 
1900, Jan. - June 
1900, June - July 
1900 
Box 98 1900 - 1903 

9 volumes

1900 - 1901 
1901, Jan. - Apr. 
1901, June - Nov. 
1901, Nov. - 1902, Apr. 
1902, Apr. - Oct. 
1902, Aug. - Nov. 
1902, Aug. - 1903, Apr. 
1903, Jan. - Mar. 
1903 
Box 99 1903, Oct. - 1906 

7 volumes

1903, Oct. - 1904, June 
1904 

2 volumes

1904, Aug. - 1904, Sept. 
1904, June - Nov. 
1904, June - Dec. 
1904 - 1906 
Box 100 1904 - 1916 

7 volumes

1904 - 1916 
1905, Jan. - July 
1905, Mar. - 1906, Nov. 
1905 - 1906 
1905 
1906, June - 1907, Feb. 

2 volumes

Box 101 1906, July - 1908, June 

7 volumes

1906, July - 1907, Nov. 
1906, Oct. - Nov. 
1906, Nov. - 1907, Mar. 
1907, Jan. - May 
1907, Feb. - Mar. 
1907, Feb. - 1908, June 
1907, Apr. - June 
Box 102 1907, June - 1908 

6 volumes

1907, June - Sept. 
1907 
1907 - 1908 

3 volumes

1908, Mar. - June 
Box 103 1908, May - 1909 

6 volumes

1908, May - July 
1908, May - Dec. 
1908, June 

2 volumes

1908 
1909 
Box 104 1909 - 1910 
1909 - 1910 
1910, Mar. - May 
D.A.R.: 1900, Dec. - 1903 

3 volumes

Box 106 Invitations, 1898-1900 

1 volume

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