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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. Gunsautus, his warm personal friend, 
said, “The personality of Dr. FavitL 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. FaviLu 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.” 
