Oran Faville
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Faville, a RepublicanRepublican Party of Iowa
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, served as the first Lieutenant Governor of Iowa
Lieutenant Governor of Iowa
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from 1858 to 1860 under fellow Republican, Governor Ralph P. Lowe
Ralph P. Lowe
Ralph Phillips Lowe was the fourth Governor of Iowa.-Biography:Lowe was born in Warren County, Ohio. He settled in the town of Muscatine, and was selected as a representative to the Iowa state constitutional convention in 1844. He moved to Lee County at the end of the 1840s, and became the...
. 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 Supt of Public Instruction, and then was the first Supt of P I, though the two offices were essentially the same. He was the first Co Judge of Mitchell Co, Iowa in 1851. The Co Judge ran the county like the Board of Supervisors does today.
He was born at Mannheim, Herkimer Co, New York, great-grandson of Captain John Faville, shown on the Continental Rolls as in command at Fishkill, New York
Fishkill, New York
Fishkill is an upscale village within the much larger town, Town of Fishkill, one of the fastest growing towns in the region, in Dutchess County, New York, USA. The village population was 1,735 at the 2000 census...
, during the American Revolution. Faville was educated at Wesleyan University
Wesleyan University
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. He then taught school in New York and Vermont. Later he was a professor at McKendree College
McKendree College
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and the president of the Ohio Wesleyan Female College
Ohio Wesleyan Female College
Ohio Wesleyan Female College was founded in 1853 in Delaware, Ohio. It is also known under the name Wesleyan Female College in Cincinnati...
in Delaware, Ohio
Delaware, Ohio
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. 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
Mitchell County, Iowa
-2010 census:The 2010 census recorded a population of 10,776 in the county, with a population density of . There were 4,850 housing units, of which 4,395 were occupied.-2000 census:According to the U.S...
). His brothers are buried at Mitchell, including Minor S Faville, by great-grandfather. Oran retired to Waverly, Bremer Co, Iowa, and is buried there with his wife, and his aged mother in the local Cemetery.