The History of the South Side Sportsmen's Club

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Samuel William Fairchild

Samuel William Fairchild, of firm of Fairchild Bros. & Foster; pharmaceutical chemist, financier; born Stratford, Conn., 1853; descendant of Thomas Fairchild of England, who settled at Stratford in 1832, and of Lieut. Thomas Elwood, who served under Paul Jones. Ph.G., 1873, and Ph.M., 1908, of Philadelphia College of Pharmacy; Sc.M., Columbia University; president College of Pharmacy of the City of New York, 1890-1896 ; founder of the Fairchild Scholarships for students of pharmacy in England. Veteran of Seventh Regiment, N.G., State of New York; commissioner representing New York at World's Columbian Exposition, 1893; trustee of Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission, 1909; member of New England Society of New York; of Society of Sons of the Revolution. President of James Pyle & Sons; chairman of Committee on International Trade and Commerce of Chamber of Commerce of New York; director Market-Fulton National Bank; trustee of Bowery Savings Bank. Trustee of Home for Incurables at Fordham, N.Y.; vice-president of .the Sevilla Home for Orphan Children ; trustee of the Polyclinic Medical School and Hospital, New York. Clubs: President of Union League Club of New York; president of Princess Anne Club of Virginia ; member of the Metropolitan, Lawyers', Sleepy Hollow (New York) ; Metropolitan Club of Washington, D.C.; Virginia Club (Norfolk) ; Southside Sportsmen's (Long Island); Devonshire Club of London, England; Travelers' (Paris). Address : 74 Laight St., N.Y. City.

The Fairchild Bros., Benjamin T. and Samuel W., are natives of Stratford Conn., and received their early education in the schools of their native town The elder, Benjamin T. Fairchild. decided, upon leaving school, to adopt pharmacy as a profession. and knowing the advantages which existed in Philadelphia for pharmaceutical training. He spent four years in that city under the preceptorship of O. S. Hubbell and Alfred B. Taylor, during which time he graduated from the Philadelphia College , Pharmacy. Upon leaving Philadelphia he entered the employ of Caswell, Hazard Co.. New York. and later that of Caswell & Massey. with whom he remained as chemist until 1878, when he embarked with his brother in an Independent business.

The younger brother, Samuel. also obtained his pharmaceutical training under the tutelage of Alfred B. Taylor at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and his business education was obtained through a five years' course in the employ of Caswell, Hazard & Co. Mess. Kesson & Robbins, of New York.

The firm of Fairchild Bros. was estabIished in 1878, and this association of two brothers whose business and social lives had been spent in close relationship and whose qualifications embraced a thorough knowledge, both of the scientific and commercial aspects of pharmacy, had much to contribute to the success of the new firm. After three years of steady progress, Macomb G. Foster, who had been three years with the firm of Mess. Kesson & Robbins, was admitted to the firm, which then became known as Fairchild Bros. & Foster. This change in the firm greatly increased its capital a gave greater scope for the business t parity of its members, and in 1884 the manufacture and introduction of pharmaceutical specialties had assumed such proportions that the firm establish Itself at 82-84 Fulton st. and began making a specialty of the "digestive ferment The success of this class of products well known to all connected with the medical and pharmaceutical profession.

1927

Mr. Fairchild died on Nov. 13, 1927, at their home, 3,001 Sedgwick Avenue, Kingsbridge, at the age of 75. He was a former president of the Union League Club, and at his death, vice president and a director of Fairchild Brothers & Foster, 70 Laight Street. Long an outstanding figure in the manufacture of chemicals, Mr. Fairchild founded the firm of Fairchild Brothers in 1879. In 1881, with the accession of Macomb G. Foster, the present name of the firm was adopted.
The Fairchild Bros., Benjamin T. and Samuel W., are natives of Stratford Conn., and received their early education in the schools of their native town The elder, Benjamin T. Fairchild. decided, upon leaving school, to adopt pharmacy as a profession. and knowing the advantages which existed in Philadelphia for pharmaceutical training. He spent four years in that city under the preceptorship of O. S. Hubbell and Alfred B. Taylor, during which time he graduated from the Philadelphia College , Pharmacy. Upon leaving Philadelphia he entered the employ of Caswell, Hazard Co.. New York. and later that of Caswell & Massey. with whom he remained as chemist until 1878, when he embarked with his brother in an Independent business.

The younger brother, Samuel. also obtained his pharmaceutical training under the tutelage of Alfred B. Taylor at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and his business education was obtained through a five years' course in the employ of Caswell, Hazard & Co. Mess. Kesson & Robbins, of New York.
The firm of Fairchild Bros. was estabIished in 1878, and this association of two brothers whose business and social lives had been spent in close relationship and whose qualifications embraced a thorough knowledge, both of the scientific and commercial aspects of pharmacy, had much to contribute to the success of the new firm. After three years of steady progress, Macomb G. Foster, who had been three years with the firm of Mess. Kesson & Robbins, was admitted to the firm, which then became known as Fairchild Bros. & Foster. This change in the firm greatly increased its capital a gave greater scope for the business t parity of its members, and in 1884 the manufacture and introduction of pharmaceutical specialties had assumed such proportions that the firm establish Itself at 82-84 Fulton st. and began making a specialty of the "digestive ferment The success of this class of products well known to all connected with the medical and pharmaceutical profession.

Mr. Fairchild died on Nov. 13, 1927, at their home, 3,001 Sedgwick Avenue, Kingsbridge, at the age of 75. He was a former president of the Union League Club, and at his death, vice president and a director of Fairchild Brothers & Foster, 70 Laight Street. Long an outstanding figure in the manufacture of chemicals, Mr. Fairchild founded the firm of Fairchild Brothers in 1879. In 1881, with the accession of Macomb G. Foster, the present name of the firm was adopted.