Legacy
The Fairmont San Francisco hotel was built and named after Fair as grand monument by his daughters, Theresa Fair Oelrichs and Virginia Fair Vanderbilt who built the hotel Construction began in 1902, but they sold their interests in 1906, days before the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Fair is remembered in Santa Cruz, California in the naming of Fair Avenue.
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)