Samuel Bacon Fairbank (December 14, 1822 – May 31, 1898) 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. Trochalopteron fairbanki, a bird, Fairbankia and Achatina fairbanki, molluscs are named after him.
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14 December 1822
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31 May 1898 (aged 75)
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Zodiac | Sagittarius |
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