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24 HENRY BAIRD FAVILL
and love for him, we shall spread these words upon the
records of the society.
(Committee)
Horace Kent Tenney
Horace A. Oakley
Samuel Fallows
Frank Billings, Chairman
RESOLUTION ADOPTED AT THE 247TH REGULAR
MEETING OF THE COMMERCIAL CLUB
OF CHICAGO, MARCH ii, 191
HENRY BAIRD FAVILL
August 14, i860— February 20, 1916
DR.
HENRY BAIRD FAVILL was the only man
ever elected to the Commercial Club without commercial
connections in Chicago. It was a unique
distinction, given and received. He had won the highest
honors of the medical profession, but this club sought
him because of his service to the physical and moral health
— the political, humanitarian, and educational life — of
Chicago.
Tall, straight, sinewy, with head held high, he was
brother to his native pines and spruces. His striking,
impressive personality expressed, while it accentuated, his
exceptional strength, poise, sagacity, and kindliness. We
have hardly among us another such powerful, definite, and
rare individuality. He was picturesque, yet free from
eccentricity. He did much to develop, he did nothing to
emphasize, the advantages which nature gave him.
He had a confident strength and freedom and courage
of mind and spirit as well as of body.
In office and hospital
and medical class-room, in the Municipal Voters' League
and its city campaigns, in the civic enterprises of the City