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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 133 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FAIRFIELD , a See also:

city and the See also:county-seat of See also:Jefferson county, See also:Iowa, U.S.A., about 51 m. W. by N. of See also:Burlington. Pop. (1890) 3391; (19o0) 4689, of whom a06 were See also:foreign-See also:born and S4 were negroes; (1go5) 5009; (1910) 4970. See also:Area, about 2.25 sq. m. Fairfield is served by the See also:Chicago, Burlington & See also:Quincy, and the Chicago, See also:Rock See also:Island & Pacific See also:railways, The city is in a See also:blue grass See also:country, in which much live stock is bred; and it is an important See also:market for draft horses. It is the seat of See also:Parsons See also:College (Presbyterian, co-educational, 1875), endowed by See also:Lewis See also:Baldwin Parsons, Sr. (1798–1855), a See also:merchant of See also:Buffalo, N.Y. The college offers classical, philosophical and scientific courses, and has a school of See also:music and an See also:academic See also:department; in 1907–1908 it had 19 instructors and 257 students, of whom 93 were in the college and 97 were in the school of music. Fairfield has a See also:Carnegie library (1892), and a museum with a collection of laces. Immediately E. of the city is an attractive See also:Chautauqua See also:Park, of 30 acres, with an auditorium capable of seating about 4000 persons; and there is an See also:annual Chautauqua See also:assembly. The See also:principal manufactures of Fairfield are See also:farm waggons, farming implements, drain-See also:tile, malleable See also:iron, See also:cotton gloves and mittens and cotton garments.

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municipality owns its See also:water-See also:works and an electric-See also:lighting plant. Fairfield was settled in 1839; was incorporated as a See also:town in 1847; and was first chartered as a city in the same See also:year. See See also:Charles H. See also:Fletcher, Jefferson County, Iowa: Centennial See also:History (Fairfield, 1876).

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