BIO: Corliss A. FAULKNER, Centre County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania: Including 
the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion: Containing 
Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens, Etc. 
Chicago: J. H. Beers, 1898.
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  HON. C. A. FAULKNER, associate judge of Centre county, is one of 
Philipsburg's leading citizens.  An able and successful businessman, he 
is also a forceful worker in local affairs, and is an influential 
representative of the old-school Democracy.
  Mr. Faulkner comes of good New England stock and was born in New 
Hampshire, March 25, 1840. His father, W. A. Faulkner, a native of 

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Massachusetts, was born in 1811, and is now living in Philipsburg in 
good health and possessing remarkable strength for one of his years.  
He is a constant student of the Bible and takes much interest in the 
questions of the day, being in his political views a stanch Democrat.  
He was married in early manhood to Miss Clarissa Hinds, a native of New 
Hampshire, who died in Philipsburg some years ago at the "Potter 
House."  They came to Pennsylvania in 1846, locating first in Erie 
county, where W. A. Faulkner was engaged in business as a carpenter and 
millwright until 1857, when he removed with his family to Philipsburg.  
There he followed carpentering and lumbering for a time, but he has now 
retired from active business.  Of his four children, two are living:  
(1) Clarissa J., the wife of B. F. Morgan, of State College; and (2) C. 
A., our subject.  The others were: (3) Louisa M., who died at the age 
of eighteen, and (4) Henry, who was a remarkable boy, having six toes 
on each foot and weighing at the age of thirteen years, 213 pounds; he 
died of typhoid fever.
   Judge Faulkner's school days were spent in Erie county, where he 
attended Girard Academy.  He also became familiar with the details of 
the carpenter's trade by assisting his father.  After the removal of 
the family to Philipsburg he engaged in the hotel business, and at 
three different times he had charge of the old "Moshannon House," a 
brick hotel.  In the spring of 1877 he opened the "Potter House" there, 
and after conducting it some six or seven years he went into the 
wholesale liquor business, which he followed two years.  His genial 
disposition and quiet manner have made many warm personal friends, 
while his abilities have won even wider appreciation, as is shown by 
his election in 1892 to the office of associate judge in this county to 
serve until 1897, and his faithful performance of the duties of that 
place has amply justified the expectations of his supporters.  Socially 
he is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and of the 
Royal Arcanum.
  Judge Faulkner married Miss Florence Shoop, a native of Philipsburg, 
born in 1861.  Their pleasant home is gladdened by an interesting 
family of seven children: C. A., Grace, Irvin, Pierre, May, Florence 
and Pauline.

1900 Philipsburg, Centre County census -
Corliss A. Faulkner, 60  
Florence Faulkner, 41  
Corliss A. Faulkner, 21  
Grace L. Faulkner, 20  
Stanley I. Faulkner, 17  
Harvey P. Faulkner, 15  
Frances M. Faulkner, 13  
Florence Faulkner, 7  
Pauline Faulkner, 4