Faulk County, SD Biographies.....Faulkner, William G. 1853 - 
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Author: C. H. Ellis
    WILLIAM G. FAULKNER was born of Scotch parents in December, 1853; his

parents' names were John and Catherine. He emigrated to this country at the age

of seventeen and with a boy companion landed in New York, where he had

relatives, and spent his first year in that locality, then went to Bay City,

Michigan, remaining there twelve years. At the end of that time he made a tour

of Montana and North and South Dakota (then Dakota Territory) and settled on the

south-west quarter of section 20, township 118, north of range 70, Faulk county,

as a preemption, June, 1883. He proved up on the same and filed a homestead,

being the south-west quarter of section 30, township 118, north of range 70.

This land is located near Burkmere, then Harrington.



    The board of county commissioners appointed Mr. Faulkner one of the four

county justices upon the organization and he was elected to that position in the

succeeding general election. In 1885 he was appointed one of the state

enumerators to take the census of the county for that year. In 1889, he was

elected county commissioner from the third commissioner district holding the

office continuously Until elected county auditor in the fall of 1894, and after

an interim of four years he was again elected county auditor, his last term

expiring in 1906. The people of the county during this time having voted $50,000

bonds for the erection of a court house. Mr. Faulkner as auditor in his official

capacity had a large part in the construction and management of the beautiful

and convenient building that contains the priceless records of Faulk county. At

present he is serving as a member of the State Board of Agriculture.



    Mr. Faulkner was married in 1885, to Miss Kate E. Alt, one of the girls who

came from Iowa City, Iowa, in 1883, who took advantage of Uncle Sam's offer to

file on government land. Her preemption was the south-east quarter of section

34, township 119, north of range 69. They have seven children, Maud C., student

of Dakota Wesleyan University at Mitchell and teacher in the county schools;

John A.; Hugh A.; May A., now a student at Dakota Wesleyan University; George

W.; Drew J., and James D.



    Mr. Faulkner with his sons have developed one of the finest farms in Faulk

county, with a comfortable home, artesian well, immense stock barn, good

granaries and buildings of every kind needed on the large farm which, with

pastures, covers two sections of land. He raises Percheron pedigreed horses, and

good breeds of cattle, hogs and sheep. Mr. Faulkner as a pioneer office holder

and farmer has fulfilled his duties both in public and private with tenacity of

purpose and strict integrity and is rated as one of the substantial and

prosperous men of Faulk county.



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HISTORY OF

FAULK COUNTY

SOUTH DAKOTA

CAPTAIN C. H. ELLIS



TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PIONEERS AND PROMINENT CITIZENS



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