BIO: John Alfred Faulkner, Wyoming Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, PA & NY

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Chaffee, Amasa Franklin. History of the Wyoming 
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
New York: Eaton & Mains, 1904, pages 320-321.
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  Faulkner, John Alfred, D.D., was born on July 14, 1857, at Grand Pre, 
Nova Scotia. In his boyhood days he worked more or less upon his 
father's farm and in his blacksmith shop. He was educated in the public 
schools, Acadia Villa Seminary, Horton Academy, Acadia College, 
Wolfville, Nova Scotia, where he received his B.A. He entered Drew 
Theological Seminary in 1878, and graduated in 1881 with the degree of 
B.D. He then studied one year in postgraduate work at Andover 
Theological Seminary.
  He was converted when about thirteen years of age, and united with 
the Wesleyan Methodist Church at Horton, Nova Scotia, in the winter of 
1871-72. It was during his college course that he became aware that God 
was calling him to the ministry. In November, 1882, he went as supply 
to Beach Lake, becoming a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at 
that time, and in 1883 joined the Conference, receiving deacon's orders 
at the same session of Conference.
   His pastoral record is as follows: 1883, Beach Lake; 1884, 
Yatesville; 1885-86, Court Street, Scranton; 1887-91, Taylorville; 
1892-93, Great Bend; 1894-97, Chenango Street, Binghamton. In May, 
1897, he was elected to succeed Dr. George R. Crooks as professor of 
historical theology in Drew Theological Seminary, and entered upon the 
duties of the place in September of the same year.
  He has been a contributor to the Methodist Review, the Review of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church South, the Bibliotheca Sacra, the Andover 
Review, and the Reformed Quarterly Review, besides The Independent, The 
Outlook, The Christian Advocate, and other religious weeklies. He 
revised and greatly enlarged Bishop Hurst's Short History of the 
Christian Church (New York, 1893), and revised and enlarged pages 15-
507 of Bishop Hurst's History of the Christian Church, Volume I (New 
York, 1897), and wrote pages 507-949 of that volume, and also furnished 
the bibliographies to page 650 inclusive, and enlarged the rest. Of 
Volume II he wrote the following: Pages 1-114, 369-499, 615-739, 809-
918; prepared the bibliographies on pages 364-368, 444, 478, 605-614, 
804-808, 872-874, and revised and enlarged the other lists of 
literature. He has published "Wesley as a Churchman" in Papers of 
American Society of Church History, vol. viii (1897). He also wrote the 
article on "Charles Wesley," among others, in McClintock and Strong's 
Cyclopedia; the articles "Methodism" and "The Wesleys" in the New 
International Cyclopedia, vol. xvii (1902-04); The Methodists in "The 
Story of the Churches" series by the Baker-Taylor Company, and has been 
invited to write The History of Doctrine, in the Hurst and Crooks 
"Library of Biblical and Theological Literature."
  In 1897 Wesleyan University honored itself and him by conferring upon 
him the degree of D.D.; and Acadia College gave him the degree of D.D. 
in 1902.
  On July 28, 1887, he married Miss Helen M. Underwood, of Pittston, 
Pa., daughter of Dr. Underwood, for many years a prominent official of 
the Pittston Methodist Episcopal Church. Two sons and a daughter have 
been born to them.
  During 1901 and 1902 he spent a year in special study at Leipsic.