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HONORED CHIEFTAIN OF THE DAIRYMEN'S POW-WOWS 



17. The story of mid-west civilization, of agricultural and 

 industrial progress, would indeed be colorless if the contri- 

 butions of the Wisconsin pioneers were forgotten. The primal 

 position of the Badger state was established with the coming of 

 the French fur traders, the natural waterway of the Great Lakes 

 giving accessibility to the front rank fighters of a spreading 

 American civilization. In Wisconsin the fusion of the ideals 

 and principles of the French trader, the Indian aborigine, and the 

 English settler, formed that virile impulse that has builded so 

 eminent a position for this state. 



Exponent of the robust Badger virtues was Dr. Henry Baird 

 Favill. Dr. Favill was born in Madison, August 14, 1860, 

 descended on his father's side from John Favill, who came to 

 America from Britain a few years prior to the Revolution, and 

 who fought strenuously for the new republic during its period of 

 struggle for independence. Following the peace settlement, John 

 Favill established in Herkimer Co., New York, and his descend- 

 ents became part and parcel of that notable band who proceeded 

 across the lakes to build up the rising civilization of Wisconsin. 

 Through his mother, Louise Sophia Baird, he inherited the up- 

 right, robust physique of an Indian ancestor, the great-great- 

 grandmother of his mother. This maternal forebear was a daugh- 

 ter of the Ottawa chieftain Kewinoquot (Returning Cloud), and 

 was educated in white civilization through the good offices of the 

 early French missionairies. Dr. Favill's father was a physician, 

 a graduate of Harvard University, a member of the first State 

 Board of Health, and President of the Wisconsin State Medical 

 Society. 



Dr. Favill's educational life was thorough. After graduating 

 from the Madison Public Schools, he entered the University of 

 Wisconsin where he received his A. B. degree in 1880. He then 

 proceeded to Rush Medical College where he received his M. D. 



