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ing enabled him to apply new ideas to his agricultural and 

 breeding problems, and led to the preparation of numerous 

 articles and lectures on subjects of economic importance. He was 

 elected vice-president of the Holstein-Friesian Association of 

 America and was first president of the National Dairy Council. 

 During the meeting of this Council at Springfield, Mass., in 1916 

 he contracted pneumonia, and passed away February 20. 



At his funeral Dr. F. W. Gunsaulus, his warm personal friend, 

 said, "The personality of Dr. Favill exalted the work and 

 achievements of the physician as well as the practical reformer 

 in the city of Chicago. No man more sanely or nobly incarnated 

 the ideals which are higher than any calling and as great as any 

 enthusiasm." The Chicago Evening Post said, "Dr. Favill was 

 a man who held in a city of over two million inhabitants the posi- 

 tion of love, dignity and influence held by many a lesser known 

 'country doctor' in the villages of America." 



