John Henry Fairbank [SEP] date of death
John Henry Fairbank
John Henry Fairbank (1831 in Rouses Point, New York – February 1914 in Petrolia, Ontario) was variously a surveyor, oilman, inventor, banker, politician and fire chief in Lambton County, Ontario.
Career.
Surveying for the Grand Trunk Railway through Lambton County, Fairbank was contracted in 1858 to survey a local property and decided to buy one himself.
In 1862 Fairbank dug a successful oil well on land in Enniskillen, Ontario Township that he bought from James Miller Williams for ten
the Vane-Tempest-Stewarts, Earls Vane and Marquesses of Londonderry.
Tempest baronets of Tong, Yorkshire.
Created 25 May 1664 in the Baronetcy of England for John Tempest.
- Sir John Tempest, 1st Baronet (1645–23 Jun 1693)
- Sir George Tempest, 2nd Baronet (22 May 1672–11 Oct 1745)
- Sir Henry Tempest, 3rd Baronet (1 Sep 1696–9 Nov 1753)
- Sir Henry Tempest, 4th Baronet (13 Jan 1753–29 Jan 1819) Baronetcy extinct on his death.