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FAVILL 378 FAY of preventive medicine and therapeutics, and in 1906 to the chair of clinical medicine. His practice, confined to internal medicine, became large, select and influential, and his repu- tation rapidly assumed a national character. At different times he was officially connected with numerous hospitals, among them the Augustana Hospital, the Passavant Me- morial Hospital and St. Luke's Hospital. He took great interest in the Chicago Tubercu- losis Institute, and was for many years its president. He was a member of : The Chicago Society of Internal Medicine, Chicago In- stitute of Medicine, Physicians Club of Chi- cago, and was president of the Chicago Medi- cal Society in 1907-8. He was an influential member of The National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, Na- tional Society of Mental Hygiene, and the American Medical Association, in which he was chairman of the Council on Health and Public Instruction. He received the degree of LL. D. from the University of Wisconsin. He was original as a lecturer and writer. A noteworthy address entitled "The Public and the Medical Profession, A Square Deal" was delivered before the Pennsylvania State Medical Society in 1915. In 1907-10 he was president of the Munici- pal Voters' League, during which period he exhibited sound judgment, fearlessly oppos- ing corrupt politics. He was president of the City Club, 1910-12, and served as one of its directors from 1905, and was at one time chairman of the Committee on Public Affairs. He was ever a leader in good government, municipal improvement and sanitary progress, and acted for many years as a trustee of the Chicago Bureau of Public Efficiency, and a director of the United Charities. During the last eight years of his life he became intensely interested in cattle breeding and the dairy industry, and gave most of his spare time during these years to the building up of a model dairy farm, "Milford Meadows" at Lake Mills, Wisconsin. His study of agri- culture and breeding problems led to the writ- ing of many articles and lectures, and to his election as president of the National Dairy Council. It was during a visit to Springfield, Massachusetts, in connection with this organ- ization that he succumbed to a virulent attack of pneumonia, February 20, 1916, leaving his widow and one son. Dr. John Favill. No other physician in America had more widely and sympathetically related himself to the public welfare. He possessed that rare gift in a medical man, the ability to preside over a deliberative assembly, setting a higher standard as he restrained the discursive and, at the end, summarized the subject under discussion with remarkable clarity. By intro- ducing his methods into medical gatherings he rendered a signal service to the profession. A fine figure of a man, tall, standing straight as an arrow, his ready intellect grasped every point and his well-modulated voice reaching to the farthest corner of the room held the sustained attention of his auditors. He had a ready wit of which the following is a sample. When Mrs. Favill was elected a Colonial Dame, some reporters facetiously inquired whether he could not qualify for the Society of the Mayflower. "No," was the quick re- tort, "My people were on the reception com- mittee." E. C. Dudley'. Fay, Jonas (1737-1818). Jonas Fay, the second of Stephen Fay's ten children, was born in Hardwick, Massachu- setts, on January 17, 1737. Of his youth and training, we know only that Dr. Fay had a good general education for those days, a "pen and ink training." Of his professional education there is apparently nothing known. At the age of eighteen he was in the French War at Fort Edward and Lake George in a company of Massachusetts troops, then surgeon to Ethan Allen's expedi- tion against Ticonderoga, and later surgeon to Warner's Regiment for the invasion of Canada. In his professional life in Bennington and elsewhere, he followed the routine of the average country doctor of those times. His public services, however, give him a high place in Vermont history. He was one of the founders of the state. A man of good native endowments, of wide information, of courage and determination as well as of like- able disposition and, above all, a patriot. Stephen Fay, his father, had come to Ben- nington in 1766, and kept the famous Cata- mount Tavern. "Landlord Fay's" was the ren- dezvous for the Green Mountain Boys in the stirring times, when the "New Hampshire grants" were the bone of contention between New Hampshire on one side and New York on the other. At the old hostelry. Dr. Jonas Fay was brought into frequent and intimate asso- ciation with the leaders among the early set- tlers, chief of whom was the redoubtable Ethan Allen. Being a skilful draughtsman he early became the clerk of the Committee of Safety and of the various conventions of the settlers, which resulted in the establishment of the new state. He drew up important public papers, and was the author of its Declaration