BIO:  Faulkner - Green Co

History of Pike and Dubois Counties, Indiana
Chicago:  Goodspeed Bros. & Co., Publishers, 1885  

Dubois County, Jefferson Township, page 721  

JOSEPH F. FAULKNER, M.D., of Birdseye, Ind., was born in Green County, Ky., 
March 2, 1834.  He was one of eleven children born to William and Anna 
(Harned) Faulkner.  His father was born and raised in Kentucky and his mother
in Virginia.  They were married in Indiana, whither she had gone to live; 
soon after they removed to Kentucky and began farm life, where they remained till
1841, when they purchased a farm in Orange County, Ind., and moved there.  Here
his father died in 1858.  The mother remained on the farm till 1880, when she
moved to Paoli and died in 1883.  Our subject lived with his parents until of age,
at which time he began teaching school.  His educational opportunities were very
limited, he only gettting the benefit of schooling for about one year, owing to
the fact that there were no schools near his home.  When about grown he procured
some books and by his own exertions acquired sufficient education to teach school.
He began teaching when about twenty-one years old and continued in that work for
about twelve years.  As a teacher he was appreciated as one of the most successful
of his day.  During intervals between terms of school he worked on a farm until
1864, when, owing to a wound received in the army, he was compelled to quit
teaching and chose medicine as a profession.  He began practicing in 1872, at
Schnellville, Ind. and has since been successfully engaged in that profession,
practicing over ten years in Schnellville.  He then removed to Birdseye, where he
has since made his home and built up a good practice.  In December, of 1861, he
enlisted in Company F, Forty-ninth Illinois Volunteers and was in the battles of
Fort Donelson and Shiloh; in the latter battle he was severely wounded in the
foot, which has caused him much trouble ever since.  He was honorably discharged
in August, 1862.  Our subject was married October 20, 1863, to Sarah C. Long, the
result of this union being seven children, six of whom are living:  Emma, Charles,
John, William, Anna and Marion Marcus.  The Doctor is a Republican and is 
recognized as one of the leading men in this section of the county.  He is a 
Freemason and a member of the G.A.R.  He and wife are members of the Baptist 
Church.


From: "Phyllis Hill" 
<phill@redrock.net>
Date: 21 May 1998