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he remainder of his days, and he never tired of talking of his early experiences in Nebraska, and of his abiding faith in the progress of the state and the growth of the University. I well remember that in the closing months of his life he said to me that the two things in his career as chancellor that gave him most satisfaction were the exchange of the original College Farm, lying near where the present state fair grounds are situated, for the tract of land that has since become the pride of the agricultural interests of Nebraska, and the other was the designing of the seal of the University of Nebraska, which he told me he designed while taking a long railway journey to the East.
I have know somewhat intimately all the chancellors of the University, and to each and all of them the state is indebted for a peculiar service rendered to the University, and certainly not the least of these debts it owes to chancellor A. R. Benton.
HENRY H. WILSON.
EDMUND BURKE FAIRFIELD
CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, 1876-1882
Edmund Burke Fairfield was born in Virginia, August 7, 1821. His ancestors came from France to America in 1639, bearing the family name of Beauchamp. He was graduated from Oberlin College in 1842, and from Oberlin Theological seminary in 1845, and became pastor of the Ruggles Street Baptist Church in Boston in 1847. In 1849 he became president of Hillsdale College, Michigan, and remained there until 1870. During his residence in Michigan he was a state senator and lieutenant governor of Michigan. After an interval of five years during which he served as pastor of the First Congregational Church at Mansfield, Ohio, he returned to educational work, in 1875, as president of a Pennsylvania state normal college, and
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