New Jersey as a colony and as a state, one of the original thirteen . n. Yet he was not only aneminent physician, but was also an earnest and devoutChristian. To his patients he brought not only heal-ing remedies for the body, but also the consolationsof the gospel for the healing of the spirit. Few phy-sicians have ever been more loved or honored thanDr. Stephen Fairchild. Death came to him after along illness, marked by the greatest suffering, but hebore it all with Christian fortitude, and his faith neverfaltered. He died, surrounded by his family, July 13,1872, and was laid to rest in the
New Jersey as a colony and as a state, one of the original thirteen . n. Yet he was not only aneminent physician, but was also an earnest and devoutChristian. To his patients he brought not only heal-ing remedies for the body, but also the consolationsof the gospel for the healing of the spirit. Few phy-sicians have ever been more loved or honored thanDr. Stephen Fairchild. Death came to him after along illness, marked by the greatest suffering, but hebore it all with Christian fortitude, and his faith neverfaltered. He died, surrounded by his family, July 13,1872, and was laid to rest in the cemetery of Parsip-pany. Dr. Stephen Fairchild enjoyed an ideal home was married on the i8th of May, 1818, to MissEuphemia M. Brinckerhoff, born in Mount Hope, , in September, 1796, daughter of George D. andEuphemia (Ashfield) Brinckerhoff. Retiring frombusiness, her father purchased a home in Parsip-pany, N. J., to which he removed his family in 1797,the residence having been a noted tavern in Revolu-tionary times. It became the birthplace of the chil-. 7r ^r J^^ lat> I ONY AND AS A STATE 295 dren of Dr. Stephen and Euphemla Fairchild, andwas destroyed by fire in November 1874, but in thespring of 1875 ^ was rebuilt by Mrs. R. V. W. Fair-child on the old site, and continued to be the home ofMrs. Euphemia Fairchild through her last years. Shepassed away June 25, 1882. She was a lady of theold school, amiable, educated, refined, and a sincereChristian. The children of Dr. Stephen Fairchild and wifewere Richard Van Wyck, born February 22, 1819,and Eliza S., bom October 19, 1820, but the latterdied in infancy. The only son followed in his fathersfootsteps, and the two were associated in business fora number of years, a most ideal relation existing be-tween them. The son was prepared for college in theclassical school conducted by Ezra Fairchild in Mend-ham, N. J., and in 1837 entered the junior class atPrinceton College, where he was graduated in studied med
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