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Cornelia Cole
( - 24 Oct 1913)
Cornelia Cole Fairbanks
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to navigationJump to searchCornelia Fairbanks
Second Lady of the United States
In role
March 4, 1905 – March 4, 1909
Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks
Preceded by Edith Roosevelt (1901)
Succeeded by Carrie Sherman
Personal details
Born January 14, 1852
Marysville, Ohio, U.S.
Died October 24, 1913 (aged 61)
Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.
Resting place Crown Hill Cemetery
Spouse(s) Charles W. Fairbanks (m. 1874)
Children
Adelaide
Robert
Richard
Frederick
Warren
Education Ohio Wesleyan University (BA)
Cornelia "Nellie" Cole Fairbanks (January 14, 1852 – October 24, 1913) was the wife of Charles W. Fairbanks, who served as the 26th Vice President of the United States from 1905 to 1909. During her husband's tenure she held the unofficial position of the Second Lady of the United States. She was at the forefront of the women's suffrage movement and considered a pathfinder to politics for American women in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Early life and education, marriage and family[edit]
She was born in 1852 in Marysville, Ohio,[1] the daughter of Ohio State Senator Philander Cole and Dorothy Witter.[2] She attended the Ohio Wesleyan Female College, where she graduated with an A.B. in 1872.[3]
In 1874 she married Charles Fairbanks, whom she had met at Ohio Wesleyan while working for the school paper.[4] They had four sons and one daughter:[5][6] Robert Fairbanks (who attended Yale), Richard M. Fairbanks (who attended Yale and served as a captain in World War I), Adelaide Fairbanks (who married Horace Allen, a doctor), Warren Charles Fairbanks, and Frederick Cole Fairbanks.
Cornelia and Charles moved to Indiana where he began practicing law, and she read with him and assisted in his practice, eventually encouraging him to enter politics.[4]
Activities[edit]
She was one of the founders of the all-women's Fortnightly Literary Club in Indianapolis, serving as its first president between 1885 and 1888.[7] She also served on the State Board of Charities during this period.[4]
With her husband serving as a U.S. Senator beginning in 1897, the couple came to Washington, D.C.. In 1899 she hosted a trip for the British and American Joint High Commission to Alaska.[8] Fairbanks, Alaska was named in honor of her husband shortly thereafter.
Cornelia was elected President General of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution in 1901, and she served two terms in that capacity. During her tenure she helped raise funds to construct the society's Memorial Continental Hall in Washington.[7] In 1907 her chapter of DAR was organized, with 28 charter members.[9] She was also active with the George Junior Republic movement.[3]
After her husband left office, they traveled the world in 1910,[7] including an appearance in King Edward VII's court. Her attire from this event is housed at the Smithsonian Institution.[10]
Fairbanks was a champion of Protestant Christianity, and supported missionary work.[4]
Fairbanks' grave in Crown Hill Cemetery Indianapolis, Indiana.
Fairbanks died of pneumonia in 1913.[1][11] She was survived by her children, husband, and mother.[12] She is buried alongside her husband, who would die in 1918, in Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis, Indiana.[13]
Legacy[edit]
Cornelia Cole Fairbanks was considered a powerful progressive operative behind the political scenes, and helped pave the way for women leaders in the United States. She was considered the equivalent of the female President of the United States due to her leadership role with the Daughters of the American Revolution, and helped construct the second Women's Club in the United States in Indianapolis through her service on the national board of the General Federation of Women's Clubs. She was considered feminine, yet a suffragist and proponent of women's rights. Historically she is remembered as a pathfinder to politics for American women in the 20th and 21st centuries.[14] She was one of the best known women in the United States during her time, and considered as clever a politician as her husband.[4]
In her husband's will, he left funds for the Cornelia Cole Fairbanks Trust Fund, which helped create the Cornelia Cole Fairbanks Memorial Home, an alcohol addiction treatment center in Indianapolis.[15]
References[edit]
^ Jump up to:a b "Mrs. C. W. Fairbanks Dead", The New York Times. October 25, 1913. Retrieved 2010-03-06
^ "Lineage Book, Volume 10", Daughters of the American Revolution. 1899. p. 200. Retrieved 20 Mar 2010.
^ Jump up to:a b "Woman's who's who of America", John W. Leonard. The American Commonwealth Company, 1914. Retrieved 20 Mar 2010.
^ Jump up to:a b c d e "Madame President 1901-1905: Nellie Fairbanks, pathfinder to politics for American women", Lucy Jane King. Author House. 2008. Retrieved 20 Mar 2010.
^ "Robert C. Fairbanks Papers, 1898-1918" (PDF). Indiana Historical Society. 1989. Retrieved 2012-11-05.
^ "Presidential Children's Names", Name Nerds. Retrieved 20 Mar 2010.
^ Jump up to:a b c "Indiana Magazine of History, Volume 9", Indiana University. 1913. Retrieved 20 mar 2010.
^ "Know your vice presidents and their wives", George Edward Ross, Barbara Novack. Hawkes Publishing Company. 1976. Retrieved 20 Mar 2010.
^ "The Cornelia Cole Fairbanks Chapter" Archived 2009-10-09 at the Wayback Machine, Retrieved 20 Mar 2010.
^ "Report on the progress and condition of the United States National Museum", United States National Museum. 1918. Retrieved 20 Mar 2010.
^ "Many Mourn Death of Mrs. Fairbanks", Shelbyville Shelby Republican, Thursday, October 30, 1913, Shelbyville, Indiana, United States Of America
^ "Dead", Bedford Daily Mail, Saturday, October 25, 1913, Bedford, Indiana, United States Of America
^ "Indiana Statesman Succumbs to Intestinal Nephritis After Long Illness at His Home", The New York Times. June 5, 1918. Retrieved 2010-03-06
^ "Cornelia Cole Fairbanks" Archived 2009-10-09 at the Wayback Machine, Cornelia Cole Fairbanks Chapter DAR. Retrieved 20 Mar 2010.
^ "Winter Newsletter 2005" Archived 2010-09-22 at the Wayback Machine, Fairbanks. Retrieved 20 Mar 2010.External links[edit]
Biography portal
Cornelia Cole Fairbanks Chapter DAR
About Cornelia Cole Fairbanks
=============
A powerful woman behind the scenes, gracious and charming in the public eye, Cornelia Cole Fairbanks was a progressive operative in political an social circles. Nellie Fairbanks helped to pave the way for women to be revered as leaders. She believed that women should be able to hold public office although she died before they were even allowed to vote in national elections.
Just over a century ago Mrs. Fairbanks was the equivalent of female President of the United States - President General of the Daughters of the American Revolution, headquartered in Washington, D. C. One of the best known women in the United States at the time, she was on the National Board of the giant General Federation of Women's Clubs. Club women of her day assumed leadership roles long before professional women would be able to be leaders in many venues.
She was on the board that helped design the first women's club building in Indianapolis, the second such structure in the nation. This experience would serve her well when she later was able to plan in initiate the building of a national headquarters for the DAR in Washington, the most impressive monument ever designed and built by women at the time. The nation and its capital saw this women campaign across the country, raise considerable sums of money, complete projects of national importance including a unique building, and skillfully manage the components of a major national organization both publicly and behind the scenes.
She was a complex woman - devoted to family and home, but not to domesticity; feminine, yet a suffragist and proponent of the rights of women. Her career in the public eye contributed positively and powerfully to attitudes about woman suffrage and women in public office. She was a pathfinder for what was to come in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Copied from the cover of Madam President, 1901 - 1905
Nellie Fairbanks, Path Finder to Politics for American Women
Written by Lucy Jane King
========================
"Lineage Book, Volume 10", Daughters of the American Revolution. 1899. p. 200.
DAR #9558
Mrs. Cornelia Cole Fairbanks
Born in Ohio
Wife of Hon. Charles Warren Fairbanks. Descendant of Benjamin Cole , of Pennsylvania, Lieutenant James Blakely, and James Blakely, Jr of New York.
Daughter of Philander Blakely Cole and Dorothy Witter, his wife.
Granddaughter of James Cole and Jerusha Blakely, his wife.
Great granddaughter of James Blakely Jr and Ann Travers, his wife; Benjamin Cole and Eunice Bennet, his wife.
Great great granddaughter of James Blakely.
Benjamin Cole was a soldier, who in 1781, received depreciation pay for his service in the Pennsylvania Line.
James Blakely, 1775, was an officer in the militia aervice.
James Blakely, Jr, who was born on the Little Nine Partner grant, enlisted in 1779, at the age of sixteen, and was a private under different commands to the close of the war. He survived to receive a pension for the service he rendered.
================
"Woman's who's who of America", John W. Leonard. The American Commonwealth Company, 1914.
p 282
Fairbanks, Cornelia Cole (Mrs. Charles Warren Fairbanks), Indianapolis, Indiana.
Born Marysville, Ohio; daughter Judge P.B. Cole; grad. Ohio Wesleyan Univ., A.B. '72; m. Marysville, Ohio, 1874, Charles Warren Fairbanks (U.S. Senator from Ind. 1897-1905; Vice-President of the United States 1905-1909). Methodist. Mem. Nat. Society D.A.R. of which was president-general 1901-05; has been active in federal club movement and Gen. Fed. of Women's Clubs; also in the promotion of the Junior Republic movement.
============
There was a book written about her
Madame President 1901-1905. Nellie Fairbanks, Pathfinder to Politics for American Women". by Lucy Jane King. Author House. 2008.
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"Indiana Magazine of History, Volume 9", Indiana University. 1913. p 315
Mrs. Cornelia Cole Fairbanks died in Indianapolis Oct 24. She served two terms as president- general of the DAR. During this period she was active in raising money to build the Memorial Continental Hall ar Washington, D.C. She was one of the founders of the Fortnightly Literary Club, of Indianapolis, serving as its first president, 1885-1888. With her husband Ex-Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks, she made a tour of the world in 1909-1910. She was a descendant of Lieutenant James Blakely, of the new York Line and of Benjamin Cole of the Pennsylvania Line, of the Revolutionary War.
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Also look for article in Shelbeyville Shelby Republican, Thurs Oct 30, 1913, Shelbeyville, Ind
Bedford Daily Mail, Sat Oct 25, 1913, Bedford, Ind.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to navigationJump to searchCornelia Fairbanks
Second Lady of the United States
In role
March 4, 1905 – March 4, 1909
Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks
Preceded by Edith Roosevelt (1901)
Succeeded by Carrie Sherman
Personal details
Born January 14, 1852
Marysville, Ohio, U.S.
Died October 24, 1913 (aged 61)
Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.
Resting place Crown Hill Cemetery
Spouse(s) Charles W. Fairbanks (m. 1874)
Children
Adelaide
Robert
Richard
Frederick
Warren
Education Ohio Wesleyan University (BA)
Cornelia "Nellie" Cole Fairbanks (January 14, 1852 – October 24, 1913) was the wife of Charles W. Fairbanks, who served as the 26th Vice President of the United States from 1905 to 1909. During her husband's tenure she held the unofficial position of the Second Lady of the United States. She was at the forefront of the women's suffrage movement and considered a pathfinder to politics for American women in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Early life and education, marriage and family[edit]
She was born in 1852 in Marysville, Ohio,[1] the daughter of Ohio State Senator Philander Cole and Dorothy Witter.[2] She attended the Ohio Wesleyan Female College, where she graduated with an A.B. in 1872.[3]
In 1874 she married Charles Fairbanks, whom she had met at Ohio Wesleyan while working for the school paper.[4] They had four sons and one daughter:[5][6] Robert Fairbanks (who attended Yale), Richard M. Fairbanks (who attended Yale and served as a captain in World War I), Adelaide Fairbanks (who married Horace Allen, a doctor), Warren Charles Fairbanks, and Frederick Cole Fairbanks.
Cornelia and Charles moved to Indiana where he began practicing law, and she read with him and assisted in his practice, eventually encouraging him to enter politics.[4]
Activities[edit]
She was one of the founders of the all-women's Fortnightly Literary Club in Indianapolis, serving as its first president between 1885 and 1888.[7] She also served on the State Board of Charities during this period.[4]
With her husband serving as a U.S. Senator beginning in 1897, the couple came to Washington, D.C.. In 1899 she hosted a trip for the British and American Joint High Commission to Alaska.[8] Fairbanks, Alaska was named in honor of her husband shortly thereafter.
Cornelia was elected President General of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution in 1901, and she served two terms in that capacity. During her tenure she helped raise funds to construct the society's Memorial Continental Hall in Washington.[7] In 1907 her chapter of DAR was organized, with 28 charter members.[9] She was also active with the George Junior Republic movement.[3]
After her husband left office, they traveled the world in 1910,[7] including an appearance in King Edward VII's court. Her attire from this event is housed at the Smithsonian Institution.[10]
Fairbanks was a champion of Protestant Christianity, and supported missionary work.[4]
Fairbanks' grave in Crown Hill Cemetery Indianapolis, Indiana.
Fairbanks died of pneumonia in 1913.[1][11] She was survived by her children, husband, and mother.[12] She is buried alongside her husband, who would die in 1918, in Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis, Indiana.[13]
Legacy[edit]
Cornelia Cole Fairbanks was considered a powerful progressive operative behind the political scenes, and helped pave the way for women leaders in the United States. She was considered the equivalent of the female President of the United States due to her leadership role with the Daughters of the American Revolution, and helped construct the second Women's Club in the United States in Indianapolis through her service on the national board of the General Federation of Women's Clubs. She was considered feminine, yet a suffragist and proponent of women's rights. Historically she is remembered as a pathfinder to politics for American women in the 20th and 21st centuries.[14] She was one of the best known women in the United States during her time, and considered as clever a politician as her husband.[4]
In her husband's will, he left funds for the Cornelia Cole Fairbanks Trust Fund, which helped create the Cornelia Cole Fairbanks Memorial Home, an alcohol addiction treatment center in Indianapolis.[15]
References[edit]
^ Jump up to:a b "Mrs. C. W. Fairbanks Dead", The New York Times. October 25, 1913. Retrieved 2010-03-06
^ "Lineage Book, Volume 10", Daughters of the American Revolution. 1899. p. 200. Retrieved 20 Mar 2010.
^ Jump up to:a b "Woman's who's who of America", John W. Leonard. The American Commonwealth Company, 1914. Retrieved 20 Mar 2010.
^ Jump up to:a b c d e "Madame President 1901-1905: Nellie Fairbanks, pathfinder to politics for American women", Lucy Jane King. Author House. 2008. Retrieved 20 Mar 2010.
^ "Robert C. Fairbanks Papers, 1898-1918" (PDF). Indiana Historical Society. 1989. Retrieved 2012-11-05.
^ "Presidential Children's Names", Name Nerds. Retrieved 20 Mar 2010.
^ Jump up to:a b c "Indiana Magazine of History, Volume 9", Indiana University. 1913. Retrieved 20 mar 2010.
^ "Know your vice presidents and their wives", George Edward Ross, Barbara Novack. Hawkes Publishing Company. 1976. Retrieved 20 Mar 2010.
^ "The Cornelia Cole Fairbanks Chapter" Archived 2009-10-09 at the Wayback Machine, Retrieved 20 Mar 2010.
^ "Report on the progress and condition of the United States National Museum", United States National Museum. 1918. Retrieved 20 Mar 2010.
^ "Many Mourn Death of Mrs. Fairbanks", Shelbyville Shelby Republican, Thursday, October 30, 1913, Shelbyville, Indiana, United States Of America
^ "Dead", Bedford Daily Mail, Saturday, October 25, 1913, Bedford, Indiana, United States Of America
^ "Indiana Statesman Succumbs to Intestinal Nephritis After Long Illness at His Home", The New York Times. June 5, 1918. Retrieved 2010-03-06
^ "Cornelia Cole Fairbanks" Archived 2009-10-09 at the Wayback Machine, Cornelia Cole Fairbanks Chapter DAR. Retrieved 20 Mar 2010.
^ "Winter Newsletter 2005" Archived 2010-09-22 at the Wayback Machine, Fairbanks. Retrieved 20 Mar 2010.External links[edit]
Biography portal
Cornelia Cole Fairbanks Chapter DAR
About Cornelia Cole Fairbanks
=============
A powerful woman behind the scenes, gracious and charming in the public eye, Cornelia Cole Fairbanks was a progressive operative in political an social circles. Nellie Fairbanks helped to pave the way for women to be revered as leaders. She believed that women should be able to hold public office although she died before they were even allowed to vote in national elections.
Just over a century ago Mrs. Fairbanks was the equivalent of female President of the United States - President General of the Daughters of the American Revolution, headquartered in Washington, D. C. One of the best known women in the United States at the time, she was on the National Board of the giant General Federation of Women's Clubs. Club women of her day assumed leadership roles long before professional women would be able to be leaders in many venues.
She was on the board that helped design the first women's club building in Indianapolis, the second such structure in the nation. This experience would serve her well when she later was able to plan in initiate the building of a national headquarters for the DAR in Washington, the most impressive monument ever designed and built by women at the time. The nation and its capital saw this women campaign across the country, raise considerable sums of money, complete projects of national importance including a unique building, and skillfully manage the components of a major national organization both publicly and behind the scenes.
She was a complex woman - devoted to family and home, but not to domesticity; feminine, yet a suffragist and proponent of the rights of women. Her career in the public eye contributed positively and powerfully to attitudes about woman suffrage and women in public office. She was a pathfinder for what was to come in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Copied from the cover of Madam President, 1901 - 1905
Nellie Fairbanks, Path Finder to Politics for American Women
Written by Lucy Jane King
========================
"Lineage Book, Volume 10", Daughters of the American Revolution. 1899. p. 200.
DAR #9558
Mrs. Cornelia Cole Fairbanks
Born in Ohio
Wife of Hon. Charles Warren Fairbanks. Descendant of Benjamin Cole , of Pennsylvania, Lieutenant James Blakely, and James Blakely, Jr of New York.
Daughter of Philander Blakely Cole and Dorothy Witter, his wife.
Granddaughter of James Cole and Jerusha Blakely, his wife.
Great granddaughter of James Blakely Jr and Ann Travers, his wife; Benjamin Cole and Eunice Bennet, his wife.
Great great granddaughter of James Blakely.
Benjamin Cole was a soldier, who in 1781, received depreciation pay for his service in the Pennsylvania Line.
James Blakely, 1775, was an officer in the militia aervice.
James Blakely, Jr, who was born on the Little Nine Partner grant, enlisted in 1779, at the age of sixteen, and was a private under different commands to the close of the war. He survived to receive a pension for the service he rendered.
================
"Woman's who's who of America", John W. Leonard. The American Commonwealth Company, 1914.
p 282
Fairbanks, Cornelia Cole (Mrs. Charles Warren Fairbanks), Indianapolis, Indiana.
Born Marysville, Ohio; daughter Judge P.B. Cole; grad. Ohio Wesleyan Univ., A.B. '72; m. Marysville, Ohio, 1874, Charles Warren Fairbanks (U.S. Senator from Ind. 1897-1905; Vice-President of the United States 1905-1909). Methodist. Mem. Nat. Society D.A.R. of which was president-general 1901-05; has been active in federal club movement and Gen. Fed. of Women's Clubs; also in the promotion of the Junior Republic movement.
============
There was a book written about her
Madame President 1901-1905. Nellie Fairbanks, Pathfinder to Politics for American Women". by Lucy Jane King. Author House. 2008.
=======================
"Indiana Magazine of History, Volume 9", Indiana University. 1913. p 315
Mrs. Cornelia Cole Fairbanks died in Indianapolis Oct 24. She served two terms as president- general of the DAR. During this period she was active in raising money to build the Memorial Continental Hall ar Washington, D.C. She was one of the founders of the Fortnightly Literary Club, of Indianapolis, serving as its first president, 1885-1888. With her husband Ex-Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks, she made a tour of the world in 1909-1910. She was a descendant of Lieutenant James Blakely, of the new York Line and of Benjamin Cole of the Pennsylvania Line, of the Revolutionary War.
==============
Also look for article in Shelbeyville Shelby Republican, Thurs Oct 30, 1913, Shelbeyville, Ind
Bedford Daily Mail, Sat Oct 25, 1913, Bedford, Ind.
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Events
| Marriage | 1874 | Charles Warren Fairbanks | |||
| Death | 24 Oct 1913 | Indianapolis, Indiana, United States | |||
| Birth | |||||
| Burial | Crown Hill, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States |
Families
| Spouse | Charles Warren Fairbanks (1852 - 1918) |
| Child | Adelaide Fairbanks ( - ) |
| Child | Frederick C Fairbanks ( - ) |
| Child | Warren Fairbanks ( - ) |
| Child | Robert Fairbanks (1887 - 1951) |
| Child | Richard M Fairbanks (1883 - 1944) |
| Father | Judge Philander Blakely Cole (1815 - 1896) |
| Mother | Dorothy Witter (1820 - 1918) |
| Sibling | Ulysses David Cole (1841 - 1901) |
| Sibling | James B Cole ( - ) |
| Sibling | Edward E Cole ( - 1911) |
| Sibling | Jessie Cole ( - ) |
| Sibling | Mrs John L Sellers Cole ( - ) |