Nathaniel K. Fairbank
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Nathaniel Kellogg Fairbank (1829-1903), a New York native, was a Chicago entrepreneur, whose company, the N.K. Fairbank Co. manufactured soap products (e.g. Fairy Soap and Gold Dust Powder) in conjunction with the great meat packing houses in northern Illinois. One of the products was "Cottolene," a lard substitute that was an early predecessor of hydrogenated margarine. NKF, Co. also published history and children's books in the early years of the twentieth century.
In the 1890s, Fairbank filed multiple claims against the squatter Captain Streeter, claiming that Streeter was on his land near Lake Michigan in downtown Chicago. Streeter, despite losing all the cases, failed to vacate the property.
Fairbank was one of the original trustees of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Fairbank, Arizona, now a ghost town, was named for him because of his status as an investor in the Grand Central Mining Company in nearby Tombstone, Arizona. He was also first Commodore of the Lake Geneva Yacht Club and served on the board of numerous corporations between 1880 and 1903.
[edit] References
- "Nathaniel Kellogg Fairbank", a monograph by Helen de Freitas
- "The Story of Chicago", by Joseph Kirkland, published by Dibble Publishing, Co., 1892.
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