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TRIBUTES AND RESOLUTIONS 79
for one's efforts, let us remember that Dr. Henry Baird
Favill was the first leader in the present-day effort to bring
about that condition.
The New Republic, March 4, 19 16.
THE
DR.
FAVILL
mystery of racial traits is emphasized at the death
of Dr. Henry Baird Favill of Chicago. Mainly of
white stock, there was Indian blood in Dr. Favill, and
it is for his semblance to a group leader and chief that he
will long be remembered. He was active and eminent as a
medical man not only in a wide private practice, but as
a lecturer, a consultant, and a leading spirit in local and
national medical organizations. But it was in his personal
and communal relations that he was most felt. His magnificent
rugged physique suggested the group chieftain.
This was fully borne out by his superb vitality, his accessibility,
his wisdom of the heart. He had that character
common to all big personalities, the inspiring suggestion of
a free and unqualified natural force. He kept in Chicago
the personal touch with his patients that was natural to
his practice in Wisconsin, but he established a sigiilar
valuable relation to Chicago in politics, civics, education,
and humane organization. Publicity has much to do
with popularity. Some popularity is nine-tenths publicity.
But Dr. Favill's was a popularity founded on realities.
For all the complex and anonymous character of the modern
city, his spirit will march on in the places that knew him,
very much as the memory of a tribal chief.
The Breeders' Gazette, March 9, 19 16.
HENRY
THE LATE DR. FAVILL
BAIRD FAVILL served well his day and
generation. Death certainly loved a shining mark
when its shaft struck him down at the apex of his
career of public service. An American of the highest