56 THE PORTRAIT GALLERY 
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 Barrp 
Favitt. Dr. Favitt 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 
FavILu 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 Sopuia Barr, 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. FAviLu’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. 
