Henry Faville was a member of the Faville family of Lake Mills, Wisconsin, well known in the dairy business and professional life of Wisconsin. Henry Faville and John Faville, sometimes referred to as Wisconsin's “twin ministers,” were the sons of Elijah Faville. They were born on the family farm on July 7, 1847. Both attended Lawrence College, both graduated from the theological school at Boston University, and both were ordained as Methodist Episcopal ministers. The obituary of Henry Faville further states that both men were eloquent pulpit orators and both had pleasing personalities that made them men of influence in their communities.
Henry Faville served several churches at Delavan, Janesville, Evansville, Oshkosh (the Algoma Street Methodist Episcopal Church), and Racine. In 1888 he left the Methodist denomination and accepted a call to the First Congregational Church of La Crosse, where he ministered for 25 years until his retirement. He was three times a delegate to the National Council, and moderator of the State Convention at Milwaukee in 1901. All through his life, says his biography in A Hundred Years of Congregational History in Wisconsin, he kept abreast of the age, both in his thinking and in his church leadership. He was the originator of the Men's Sunday Evening Club which his brother in Appleton then notably developed during his ministry in Oshkosh. (John Faville served the First Congregational Church of Oshkosh.).
Henry Faville married Harriet A. Conant of Janesville in 1876. They became the parents of three sons, the oldest (Harold) dying in childhood. Their second son, Theodore Rush Faville, was born in Evansville on August 23, 1881. He later also became a Congregational minister and in 1922 he became superintendent of the Wisconsin Congregational Conference. Henry Faville's other son was Henry Conant Faville.
