Charles Grandison Fairchild (1843 – 1933) was an American educator.

Fairchild was born in Birmingham, Michigan

Birmingham, Michigan

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, the son of Edward Henry Fairchild

Henry Fairchild

Edward Henry Fairchild was an American educator.Fairchild was born in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. His father was Grandison Fairchild. When he was a child his family moved to northeast Ohio....

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After serving in the Union cavalry during the Civil War, Fairchild graduated from Oberlin College

Oberlin College

Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio, noteworthy for having been the first American institution of higher learning to regularly admit female and black students. Connected to the college is the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, the oldest continuously operating...

 (AB, 1866). After further theological studies at Oberlin, Fairchild was ordained in the congregational church.

In the early 1870s, He toured Europe as manager for the original Jubilee singers of Fisk University

Fisk University

Fisk University is an historically black university founded in 1866 in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. The world-famous Fisk Jubilee Singers started as a group of students who performed to earn enough money to save the school at a critical time of financial shortages. They toured to raise funds to...

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Fairchild was a gifted fundraiser for colleges. From 1873 to 1881, Fairchild taught physics and served as a fundraiser for Berea College

Berea College

Berea College is a liberal arts work college in Berea, Kentucky , founded in 1855. Current full-time enrollment is 1,514 students...

 in Berea, Kentucky

Berea, Kentucky

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. During that time his father was president of Berea. From 1881 to 1893, he taught chemistry and physics and served as a fundraiser for Oberlin

Oberlin College

Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio, noteworthy for having been the first American institution of higher learning to regularly admit female and black students. Connected to the college is the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, the oldest continuously operating...

 where his uncle James

James Fairchild

James Harris Fairchild was an American educator.Harris was born in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, on November 25, 1817. His father was Grandison Fairchild. Soon after his birth his parents moved to Brownhelm, Lorain County, Ohio, and settled on a farm about ten miles from the present site of Oberlin...

 was president.

In 1893, he became president of Rollins College

Rollins College

Rollins College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college located in Winter Park, Florida , along the shores of Lake Virginia....

 in Winter Park, Florida

Winter Park, Florida

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. He served for two years.

From 1904 to 1918, Fairchild worked for the Board of Education of New York, NY.