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missionaries among the Indians.
Mrs. Fisher was the head
of a widely recognized school attended by daughters of the
most influential white families and by Indian girls as well.
5. Elizabeth Therese Fisher, daughter of Marianne La
Saliere Fisher, married Henry S. Baird of Green Bay, Wis.
6. Louise Sophia Baird, daughter of Elizabeth Therese
Baird, married Dr. John Favill of Madison, Wis.
Favill.
7. Dr. Henry Baird Favill was the only son of Louise
Although, as will be seen from the above. Dr. Favill
was only one thirty-second part Indian, his physical appearance
w^ould have enabled him to pass as immeasurably
more Indian than white.
Dr. Favill was a graduate of the Madison High School,
of the University of Wisconsin, A. B., in 1880, and of Rush
Medical College, M. D., in 1883. In this latter year he was
an intern at Cook County Hospital, Chicago, and then
became associated in practice in Madison with his father,
who died a few months later. In 1885 he married Miss
Susan Cleveland Pratt of Brooklyn, N. Y. For three years
he lectured on Medical Jurisprudence in the Law Department
of the University. In 1894 he left a large practice
in medicine and surgery in Madison, and removed to
Chicago to accept simultaneous calls to the Chair of Medicine
in the Chicago Policlinic, and to an adjunct Chair of
Medicine in Rush Medical College, from which latter he
was promoted in 1898 to the Ingals Professorship of Preventive
Medicine and Therapeutics, and in 1906 to the
Chair of Clinical Medicine.
His practice, now confined to internal medicine, soon
became large and influential and his reputation rapidly
assumed a national character. At different times he was
officially connected with numerous hospitals, among them
the Augustana Hospital, the Passavant Memorial Hospital,
and St. Luke's Hospital, of which last, at the time of his
death, he was president of the Medical Board. One of the