Henry Baird Favill, AB, MD, LL.D., 1860-1916, a ... - University Library

i6 HENRY BAIRD FAVILL
facial contour presenting the characteristics of his Indian
forebears, of whom he was very proud, much more strikingly
than they were to be seen in either his mother or grandmother,
through whom he traced his descent from Kewinoquot,
a chief of the Ottawa tribe.
Environment and training played an important role in
his development. The beautiful "city of the lakes," where
his youth was spent, offered abundant opportunity and inducement
for fishing, hunting, boating and the like, and
in these he cultivated that love of out-of-door life, which
was one of the important tenets of his medical philosophy,
and which he exemplified in his personal habits throughout
his life.
Completing his preparation for college in the Madison
public schools, he entered the University of Wisconsin at
the early age of sixteen, and graduated therefrom with the
degree of A.B. in 1880, three months before his twentieth
birthday.
He was not an especially bookish student, but he was
keenly alert in class room and laboratory, and he carried
away from his college course a much larger fund of useful,
well-digested information, and secured from it a more
effective training of his faculties than do most students.
He was fortunate, too, in the circle of friends and intimates
of
the family — a cultured, high-minded group, association
and conversation with whom was in itself a liberal education.
In the student body of less than four hundred he was a
prime favorite, active in the happy, care-free college life
of that day.
To John Bascom, president of the University of Wisconsin
in those years, and one of the great moral forces of
his time, he attributed much of the inspiration to high ideals
of life and the service of humanity, which marked his later
years.
About the time he entered Rush Medical College, in
the autumn of 1880, his father developed cataract, which