FAIRFIELD, a city of south-eastern Iowa, U.S.A., on Fed eral highway 34 and served by the Burlington and the Rock Island railways; the county seat of Jefferson county. The popu latior, (95% native white) was 6,619 in 1930 Federal census. It is in a blue-grass country, where much live stock is raised, and is an important market for draft horses. The city has important manufactures, especially of dairy and farm equipment which goes to all parts of the country. The output in 1927 was valued at about $6,000,000. An annual Chautauqua assembly is held in a 3oac. park just east of the city, which has an auditorium seating 4,000. Fairfield was settled in 1839 and chartered as a city in 1847. It is the seat of Parsons college (Presbyterian), endowed by Lewis Baldwin Parsons, Sr. (1793-1855), a merchant of Buffalo, N.Y., and established in