Individual Details
Hyder Hamton Fair
(29 Jul 1870 - Sep 1922)
Hyder H. Fair was born at Evansville, Indiana, July 29, 1870, and spent most of his youth in Southern Illinois. He attended public schools there and also Ewing College at Ewing, Illinois. He was seventeen when his parents came to Kansas, and he continued his education with a business course at Wichita. Then, in 1889, he entered the merchandise business at Sharon and continued active in it until 1908, until he sold out. In the meantime, in 1903, he assisted in organizing the Sharon Valley State Bank, and has been president of the institution since that time. The other officers are: H. D. Fair, his brother, vice president, and G. W. Lindley, cashier. The bank is capitalized at $10,000 and has a surplus of $6,000. Mr. Fair owns one of the finest farms in the Sharon Valley, comprising 230 acres and located near Sharon. He owns other real estate in the town, including the most modern home there, and is a director in the Johnston & Larimer wholesale dry goods company of Wichita.
Mr. Fair is a respublican[sic] in politics and a member of the Christian Church. He is affiliated with Delta Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Cypress Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, Anthony Commandery, Knights Templar, Wichita Consistory No. 2 of the Scottish Rite, Midian Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Wichita, and Sharon Camp of the Modern Woodmen of America. He is also a member of the Kansas Bankers' Association.
In 1895, at East St. Louis, Illinois, Mr. Fair married Miss Rosalie Moyers. Her father, Judge W. J. N. Moyers, who was born in Kentucky in 1848, became a prominent lawyer in Southern Illinois, practicing for many years at Beaton, and for the last ten years lived at East St. Louis, where he died in 1914. He was judge of the City Courts of East St. Louis and at one time represented Franklin County in the State Legislature. He also had an army record as a Union soldier in the Civil war. Mrs. Fair's mother bore the maiden name of Delia Kirkpatrick. She was born in Illinois and is now living at Citronelle, Alabama.
Mr. and Mrs. Fair have two children: Geraldine, a student in Fairmount College at Wichita, and La Von, attending the high school.
From A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans, written & compiled by William E. Connelley, Secretary of the Kansas State Historical Society, published 1919.
Obituary not found at chroniclingamerica.loc.gov, genealogybank.com or newspaperarchive.com, March 25, 2018.
Mr. Fair is a respublican[sic] in politics and a member of the Christian Church. He is affiliated with Delta Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Cypress Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, Anthony Commandery, Knights Templar, Wichita Consistory No. 2 of the Scottish Rite, Midian Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Wichita, and Sharon Camp of the Modern Woodmen of America. He is also a member of the Kansas Bankers' Association.
In 1895, at East St. Louis, Illinois, Mr. Fair married Miss Rosalie Moyers. Her father, Judge W. J. N. Moyers, who was born in Kentucky in 1848, became a prominent lawyer in Southern Illinois, practicing for many years at Beaton, and for the last ten years lived at East St. Louis, where he died in 1914. He was judge of the City Courts of East St. Louis and at one time represented Franklin County in the State Legislature. He also had an army record as a Union soldier in the Civil war. Mrs. Fair's mother bore the maiden name of Delia Kirkpatrick. She was born in Illinois and is now living at Citronelle, Alabama.
Mr. and Mrs. Fair have two children: Geraldine, a student in Fairmount College at Wichita, and La Von, attending the high school.
From A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans, written & compiled by William E. Connelley, Secretary of the Kansas State Historical Society, published 1919.
Obituary not found at chroniclingamerica.loc.gov, genealogybank.com or newspaperarchive.com, March 25, 2018.
Events
| Birth | 29 Jul 1870 | Evansville, Vanderburgh Co., Indiana |  | ||
| Marriage | 3 Mar 1895 | East St Louis, St Clair Co., Illinois - Rosalie Moyers | | ||
| Death | Sep 1922 | Wichita, Sedgwick Co., Kansas | | ||
| Burial | Sharon Cemetery, Sharon, Barber Co., Kansas | |
Families
| Spouse | Rosalie Moyers (1872 - 1928) |
| Child | Geraldine M Fair (1897 - 1958) |
| Child | Virginia LaVon Fair (1901 - 1995) |