William B. Fairfield

FAIRFIELD

Posted By: Diane (email)
Date: 2/24/2002 at 19:56:13

In the meantime the district was divided and Butler county was made a part of the Twelfth District, and the Honorable William B. Fairfield was elected judge. He held his first term in June, 1865. He was a native of New York, a man of commanding appearance, with a noble, open countenance, and was a great deal more genial and unreserved than judges usually are. He had a thorough education, was well read, and had a complete understanding of his profession, although he was, at the same time, a man who like to take matters easy. He resigned his position of judge in 1870, after holding the June term, and went in to the banking business at Charles City. He is now dead.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Page 324