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Olive R. Fairbanks (1819-1900) Olive Ruggles Fairbanks was born on August 20, 1819. She was the daughter of Samuel Fairbanks of Newton, Massachusetts and Mrs. Hannah Everett Jackson. It was her mother’s second marriage. For many years after the death of her parents Olive, who never married, lived with relatives or friends. Her life was perhaps indicative of the circumstances of single women without an education or trade in the nineteenth century. In the 1870 census, Olive

“Real” Daughters of the American Revolution in Old Parish All those who are granted membership in the National Society of the Daughters...