Legacy
The town of Fairchild, Wisconsin is named in his honor. The 422 foot WW II Liberty Ship SS Lucius Fairchild was named in his honor, built in 1943 in Portland, Oregon for the United States War Shipping Administration. A John Singer Sargent portrait of General Fairchild is housed at the Wisconsin Historical Museum located in Madison, Wisconsin.
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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)