Shaver, F. A., Arthur P. Rose, R. F. Steele, and A. E. Adams, compilers.  "An
Illustrated History of Central Oregon." ("Embracing Wasco, Sherman, Gilliam,
Wheeler, Crook, Lake, & Klamath Counties")  Spokane, WA: Western Historical
Publishing Co., 1905.  p. 784.
 
JOHN T. FAULKNER

     who has for twenty-three years been the efficient and faithful postmaster
at Paulina, where also he handles a fine mercantile business, is one of the
leading citizens of Crook county.  In addition to the affairs mentioned, he
oversees a farm of five hundred acres and a fine stock business.  He was born in
Ohio on January 8, 1846, the son of Thomas J. and Mary M. (Keener) Faulkner,
natives of New York and Ohio respectively.  The father  came to Ohio as a
pioneer and in 1850 started from that country with ox teams to the Pacific
coast.  He arrived in Marion county, Oregon in 1851 and soon thereafter moved to
Linn county, where he took a donation claim eight miles southeast of Albany.
That was his home until his death and he was known far and near as a substantial
and good man. Our subject was educated in Linn county and after growing to
manhood he engaged in farming. It was November 21, 1877, when he came to the
territory now embraced in Crook county, making settlement near Warm Springs. In
1881 he came to his present location and took a homestead. He has since
purchased land until his estate is of the dimensions mentioned above. In the
spring of 1878 Mr. Faulkner with the other settlers of the country, was obliged
to flee from the Indians, who were on the war path, and the property that the
settlers left behind was confiscated by the savages. He has labored faithfully
during all the intervening years from the time of settlement until the present
and he has accomplished a great deal for the upbuilding of the country. He knows
well the hardships of the pioneer and the arduous labors and dangers incident to
such life, having experienced them all. He is to be classed with the worthy
pioneers of Oregon and is known as a splendid business man and an excellent
neighbor.
     In 1871 Mr. Faulkner married Charity E. Foster, who was born in Marion
county, Oregon, the daughter of Henry Foster, a pioneer to Oregon in 1842. Three
children have been born to this marriage, Orla B., Malissa A. and Henry J. Mr.
Faulkner has always taken a deep interest in educational matters and in
everything that tends for the improvement and building up of the country, and is
liberal in the support of every public institution. He is a member of the A. O.
U. W., and is considered one of the representative men of the country.


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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in October 2011 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.