FAVILLE, Frederick F. --Judge of the Supreme Court, was born on a farm in Mitchell county, Iowa. He attended the public schools at Mitchell, Iowa, and later the Cedar Valley Seminary at Osage, Iowa. He attended Iowa state college at Ames, from which he graduated with the degree of bachelor of science. He attended the law department of the university of Maryland at Baltimore and completed his course in law at the state university of Iowa in 1891.
After being admitted to the bar, he began the practice of law at Sioux Rapids, Iowa, and moved from there to Storm Lake in 1895. He served two terms as county attorney of Buena Vista county. He was presidential elector from the eleventh congressional district in 1904. In 1907 he was appointed by President Roosevelt as 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. In 1920 he was elected to the supreme bench, and re-elected in 1926. By reason of statute chief justice in 1925. Republican in politics.
Source: Iowa Official Register, 1927-1928; Biographies of Supreme Court Justices.
Contributed by Sharyl Ferrall, Dec. 2003