Education
Wesleyan University.
politician university professor
Wesleyan University.
Faville, a Republican, served as the first Lieutenant Governor of Iowa from 1858 to 1860 under fellow Republican, Governor Ralph P. Lowe. He was also later an Iowa superintendent of public instruction (1864–1867). He was the last Secretary of the State Board of Education when it was changed to Superintendent of Public Instruction, and then was the first Superintendent of P I, though the two offices were essentially the same.
He was the first Company Judge of Mitchell Company, Iowa in 1851.
The Company Judge ran the county like the Board of Supervisors does today. He was born at Mannheim, Herkimer Company, New York, great-grandson of Captain John Faville, shown on the Continental Rolls as in command at Fishkill, New York, during the American Revolution.
Faville was educated at Wesleyan University. He then taught school in New York and Vermont.
Later he was a professor at McKendree College and the president of the Ohio Wesleyan Female College in Delaware, Ohio.
In the 1850s he moved to Mitchell County Iowa and entered politics. After his death he was interred at Oak Grove Cemetery (Mitchell County, Iowa).
