The story begins with the migration of ancestors John and Elizabeth Fairfield with their young son, Walter, from England to Massachusetts sometime in the 1630s. They lived lives typical of small-town pioneers of that era and at the same time laid the foundation for future descendants of the Fairfield family. Follow this historic lineage through the passages of time from the Revolutionary War to World Wars I and II, from Wenham, Massachusetts, to Minnesota and then onward to the Pacific Northwest.