Ancestry of
Matthew Modine

TV and Movie Actor

Joseph Fairbanks

View famous kin of Joseph Fairbanks

• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Matthew Modine — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 40 
  • Father:
  • Joseph Fairbanks 
  • Mother:
  • Asenath Osgood   
  • Birth Date:
  • 15 Oct 1778 
  • Birth Location:
  • Templeton, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
  •  
  • Christening Location:
  •  
  • Death Date:
  • 28 Feb 1847 
  • Death Location:
  • Winter Quarters (now North Omaha), Douglas, Nebraska 
  • Burial Date:
  •  
  • Burial Location:
  • Mormon Pioneer Cemetery, Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Polly Brooks
  • Marriage Date:
  • 3 Oct 1803 
  • Marriage Location:
  •  
  • Child:

  David Fairbanks (Ahnentafel No:20 )

• Sources for Joseph Fairbanks

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 03/13/2025).
  • ² Fairbanks, Lorenzo Sayles, Genealogy of the Fairbanks Familly in America, 1633-1897, Boston: American Printing and Engraving Company (1897), 200, 393-394.
  • ³ Fairbanks, Lynn and Katie, Genealogy of the Fairbanks Family of the West, 1839-1965, Salt Lake City, Utah: L. and K. Fairbanks (1971), 1-4.
  • ⁴ White, Almira Larkin, Genealogy of the Descendants of John White of Wenham and Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1638-1900, Vol. 2, Haverhill, Massachusetts: Chase Brothers, Printers (1900), 292-293.