FAVILLE, Frederick F. 1865-1954

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Posted By: Marilyn O'Connor (email)
Date: 4/6/2011 at 14:22:42

FAVILLE, Frederick F. 1865-1954

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The Honorable Frederick F. Faville, Supreme Court Justice in the Iowa Supreme Court was born on a farm in Mitchell County, Iowa, June 5, 1864.

He attended the public schools in Mitchell Iowa and later attended the Cedar Valley Seminary in Osage Iowa.

After graduating from the public school systems here in Mitchell County Frederick attended Iowa State University at Ames, from which he received a degree in Political Science.

Frederick then attended the Law Department of the University of Maryland at Baltimore and returned to Iowa to complete his Degree in Law at Iowa State University in 1891.

After being admitted to the Iowa Bar Association, he began the practice of law at Sioux Rapids, Iowa, and moved from there to Storm Lake in 1895.

Frederick served two terms as county attorney of Buena Vista county in Iowa.

He was Presidential Elector from the Eleventh Congressional District in 1904.

In 1907 he was appointed by President Roosevelt himself as the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Iowa, and served in that office over six years.

In 1918 he moved to Fort Dodge, Iowa, and continued the practice of law, as a member of the firm of Healy & Faville.

As a Republican he was elected to the bench of the Iowa Supreme Court in November of 1920.

Judge Faville was returned to Mitchell Iowa to be interred with his family members at the Oak Grove Cemetery.

NOTE: Research credit: Jody Roll (findagrave).

A similar obituary in the Waterloo Courier for Friday, February 19, 1954, said he died at his home Friday; he was 88.

Burial was at Oak Grove Cemetery, Mitchell.

Note: See photo of his tombstone on IaGenWeb's GPP collection.

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F.F. Faville
Dies at 88

DES MOINES - Former Iowa Supreme Court Justice Frederick F. Faville, member of a family prominent in Iowa history died at his home here Friday [Feb. 19, 1954]. He was 88.

He was a former United States attorney for the northern district of Iowa and was elected to the Supreme Court in 1920. In 1925 he became chief justice by virtue of the fixed rule of succession.

Judge Faville, who died following a stroke, served on the Supreme Court from 1921 to 1933.

Born on a Mitchell County farm on June 5, 1865, he attended public schools at Mitchell and then studied at the Cedar Valley Seminary at Osage.

Graduating in 1888 from the scientific course of Iowa State College at Ames, he went to the University of Maryland and studied law, returning to Iowa to graduate from the State University's law college in 1891.

He began the practice of law, the same year at Sioux Rapids and in 1895 he went to Storm Lake, where he was Buena Vista County Attorney for two years

Former President Theodore Roosevelt appointed Judge Faville U. S. Attorney for northern Iowa in 1907. He served in that capacity until the end of the Taft administration. He continued his law practice at Fort Dodge in 1918.

He was married twice and had a son and a daughter by his first wife, who died in 1919. He married the former Josephine Creelman in 1925 at Cedar Rapids.

(Credit: M. O'Connor)

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SERVICES FOR
F.F. FAVILLE
HELD SUNDAY

FORMER SUPREME COURT
JUSTICE DIED FRIDAY IN
DES MOINES AT AGE 88

Frederick F. Faville, 88, former Iowa supreme court justice, died from a stroke in his home at Des Moines Friday. He had been bedridden since a stroke on July 23, 1946.

Funeral services for him were conducted on Sunday in the Dunn Funeral Home in Des Moines. Interment was at Storm Lake** on Monday.

Judge Faville was born near Mitchell in 1865, the son of Judge and Mrs. Amos S. Faville, who migrated from the east to Mitchell county before the Civil War. Amos S. Faville taught the first Sunday school and organized the first public school in the county. He represented it in the house of representatives in 1870.

Frederick Faville attended public schools and Cedar Valley Seminary. He graduated from Iowa State College in 1888, studied law at the University of Maryland and received his degree in law from the University of Iowa in 1891.

Among those of his profession in this community during his early manhood were Cyrus Foreman . . . [irrelevant]

Judge Faville practiced law at Sioux Rapids in 1891 and moved to Storm lake in 1892, when he was elected Buena Vista county attorney.

He was United States district attorney from 1907 until 1913; a member of th esupreme court from 1921 to 1933 and practiced in Sioux City from 1935 to 1942. He accepted appointment as code editor and supreme court reporter in 1942 when he was 77.

Judge Faville was married twice. His first wife was Cora Thornburg. She died in 1919. They were the parents of a son, Stanton S., a lawyer at Birmingham, Michigan, and a daughter, Mrs. Marion B. Aycock of Evanston, Illinois. He and Josephine Creelman of Osage were married in 1925. She, three grandchildren and two great-grandchildren survive.

[ From a clipping in a collection at Osage Public Library. ]

**He was not buried at Storm Lake -- he was buried at Oak Grove, Mitchell. See GPP photo of his stone.
(Research credit: K. Kittleson)

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Frederick Faville

1909 Past and Present of Buena Vista County, Iowa

Frederick F. Faville, United States attorney for the northern district of Iowa, was born in Mitchell, Iowa, June 5, 1865. His father, Amos S. Faville, was a most distinguished and honored citizen. A native of Herkimer county, New York, he was born in 1823. His early life was devoted to farming and after a trip around the world he came to Iowa, settling on a farm in Mitchell county, entering the land from the government. He was the first county surveyor of that county and the second to fill the position of county judge. He was also deputy United States internal revenue collector for what is now the third district. He was a member of the thirteenth general assembly of Iowa from Mitchell and Howard counties. He taught the first school in the county, organized the first Sunday school and was one of the early officers of the Congregational church which numbered him among its devoted members. He was also a member of the Masonic fraternity and his political allegiance was given to the republican party. A man of letters, college-bred and with strong native intelligence, Judge Faville was well qualified to occupy the position of prominence and influence which he did in the public life of the state.

His wife's maiden name was Esther D. Crary. She was born in Knox, Albany county, New York, in 1838, and was descended from Puritan ancestry and from Revolutionary stock. Mrs. Faville was a member of the Congregational church and like her husband was greatly interested in the intellectual and ~oral progress of the community where they resided. His death occur- red in December, 1900, while she passed away in November, 1902. They were the parents of five children, of whom Frederick F. Faville was the third in order of birth.

Frederick F. Faville was a pupil in the public schools of Mitchell, Iowa, in his early boyhood and afterward attended the Cedar Valley Seminary, at Osage, and later graduated from the Iowa State College at Ames. He next entered the State University of Maryland, where he was a law student in 1889 and 1890. He further continued his preparation for the bar as a student in the State University of Iowa, from which he was graduated with the class of 1891. In the spring of 1892 he began practice in Sioux Rapids, where he remained until the spring of 1895, when he came to Storm Lake to assume the duties of the office of county attorney and here he has lived continuously since. He continued in the private practice of law with growing success until March 15, 1907, when he was appointed by President Roosevelt to the position of United States attorney for the northern district of Iowa, and is now the incumbent in that office.

Be belongs to the Masonic fraternity. His political allegiance has ever been given to the republican party. For four years he served as county attorney and in 1904 he w11S on the national republican ticket as presidential elector from the eleventh district.

In December, 1891, Mr. Faville was married to Miss Cora Thornburg, who was born in Orchard, Iowa, in 1866. They have two children, Stanton S, and Marion B. The parents are members of the Presbyterian church, of which Mr. Faville is a trustee.

Mrs. Faville is much interested in the social and literary life of the city. She is president of the Tuesday Club, a ladies' literary organization, and chair- man of the book committee of the trustees of the public library.

Tombstone Photo on GPP
 

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