Fred Rogers Fairchild

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Fred Rogers Fairchild (1877-1966) was an American economist and educator.

Fairchild was born in Crete, Nebraska. His father was Arthur Babbitt Fairchild, a descendant of Thomas Fairchild who settled in New England in 1639.

Fairchild attended Doane College (AB, 1898) in Crete and Yale University (PhD, 1904). He also received an honorary LL.D. from Doane in 1929.

Fairchild taught economics at Yale for many years. An expert on taxation, he was a frequent consultant to the Federal Government.

Fairchild was a brother of Henry Pratt Fairchild, a sociologist and educator.

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  • Fairchild, Fred Rogers. The National Cyclopedia of American Biography. 54: 14-14. 1973.
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