From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 752. City of La Crosse JOHN B. FAIRBANKS, M. D., is a native of Springfield, Vt.; born April 29, 1847; son of Roswell and Brittainnia (Burnham) Fairbanks, who came to Wisconsin in 1849; lived four years at Oasis, Waushara Co., and then settled in Easton, Adams Co. The Doctor was educated at the State University at Madison, and studied medicine with Bowen & Sugman, of that city. He graduated in 1878, from the Homeopathic Medical College of St. Louis, and also in the same year from the Missouri School of Midwifery and Diseases of Women and Children; practiced a short time in Juneau Co., Wis., coming from there to La Crosse. He was married at Linden, Juneau Co., Wis., in September, 1876, to Miss Olive A. Armstrong. [I am not related to this family and have no further information. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!]