William Armstrong Fairburn

He made trips home to visit family still in Huddersfield, and his passport application (1923) shows that he was born in Hull, England in 1849, and that his father was another Thomas.

William was born in Huddersfield, England, 12 October 1876,[3] the 1891 census showing that he had already begun work as a "Post Office boy" by the age of 14.

[4] They were also executives at the Diamond Match Company, and in 1909 they put Fairburn in charge of its operations in hopes of solving some problems it had encountered.

Fairburn published several dozen books in the early twentieth century concerned generally with sociology in the workplace, theories and speculations on human potentialities, and other topics.

Among his works are: He married Isabella Louise Ramsay (born 4 August 1878, Summerfield, Prince Edward Island, Canada) in September 1904.