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Samuel B. Fairbank.
American missionary and naturalist in India (1822-1898)
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About Samuel B. Fairbank
Samuel Bacon Fairbank D.D. was an American evangelist, writer, translator, and amateur naturalist who worked in India with the American Marathi Mission in western India, mainly in Wadala Bahiroba (Wadale), near Ahmednagar. Fairbank was responsible for some of the earliest translations of hymns into Marathi. He also worked on a number of initiatives to improve agriculture. His children and several relatives continued to work as missionaries in India. A bird species, Montecincla fairbanki, and the molluscs Fairbankia and Achatina fairbanki are named after him.
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- missionary
- Born
- December 14, 1822
- Died
- May 31, 1898