William Armstrong Fairburn

William Armstrong Fairburn (October 12, 1876 – October 1, 1947) was an American writer, naval architect, marine engineer, industrial executive, and chemist. who married in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, in 1867.

Census information shows that Thomas worked as a ship fitter, then foreman at a ship yard in Braintree, Massachusetts. 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 on October 12, 1876,

He returned to the United States to work at Bath Iron Works where he built an all-steel freighter, the first in America. By 1900 he was an independent consultant. In this capacity, he met O. C. Barber and Edward R. Stettinius, Sr., at the Stirling Boiler Co. (later merged into Babcock & Wilcox). in 1915, succeeding Stettenius. This work describes workers as chemical elements in a well-stocked laboratory and handlers of people as chemists. The Individual and Society (1915) Man and his health; Liquids (1916) Life and Work (1916) Mentality and Freedom (1917) The Diagnosis of the German Obsession (1918) Organization and Success (1923) Justice and Law (1927) Russia, the Utopia in chains (1931) Work and workers: Essays and miscellaneous writings (1933)

Family He married Isabella Louise Ramsay (born August 4, 1878, Summerfield, Prince Edward Island, Canada) in September 1904.