Charles Oliver Fairbank (doctor), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Charles Oliver Fairbank (doctor)

Date of Birth: 21-Jul-1858

Place of Birth: Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada

Date of Death: 24-Feb-1925

Profession: teacher

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Major Charles Oliver "Chas" Fairbank (1858–1925) was a Canadian oilman and military officer and M.D.
who served in the First World War. Fairbank was born July 21, 1858 in Niagara Falls, Welland County Ontario.
He was the son of famous Petrolia oil pioneer, John Henry Fairbank and grew up in the oil rush of Oil Springs and Petrolia.
From the age of four to eight lived with his father in the Oil Springs log shanty.
He was an oil operator who took the reins of all the family businesses in 1912 as the oil fields began declining.
The businesses included oil production and a hardware store.
The Fairbank family founded Fairbank Oil (still in operation) in 1861.
He studied at Helmuth College in London, Ontario.
Gentleman Cadet Fairbank was a member of the first class at Royal Military College of Canada, soon known as the "Old Eighteen." He entered 1st term on the 1st June 1876 and graduated in 1880.
He graduated in 1891 with a degree of Doctor of Medicine from College of the Province of New York Known as King's College, now Columbia College.
Due to his short stature, he was known as the little doctor.
As part of the HQ staff, During World War I, he served as M.D.
#1.
The businesses included one of Canada's last private banks, which was in continuous operation from 1869 - 1924 when it closed its doors voluntarily.
He was the oilman who hit Canada's first gas gusher in 1914 and developed oil fields both in Bothwell, Ontario and in the Elk Hills in California.