Was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, July 27, 1820. His parents (Cornelius and Lucinda Faulkner) were of German and Irish descent. They moved to Dearborn County, near Moore’s Hill, when Chester was a boy. He married Sarah Wills, of Moore’s Hill. In 1862 he moved to Holton, Ripley County. He enlisted in the late war but was found to the disabled in the way of a limb deformity, consequently he remained at home. For fifteen years he was employed by Chambers & Stephen’s Dry Goods House, of Cincinnati, as traveling salesman and collector. He was sent to Washington in 1876 by his firm, on business, and while on his way back he received the appointment of Special Police at Washington, during the inauguration. Since then, until he received his present position, he had served as Daniel Voorhee’s private secretary. In 1879 he was elected as Joint Representative from Ripley, Decatur and Franklin Counties, by the Democratic party. While serving in this office he was Chairman of the Temperance Committee. In 1880 he was elected to the State by the same party. He was Chief of the Record Division of the Pension Office at Washington. His family lived on a farm near Holton. He had five children dead and two living. One daughter lived with parents and the other in Greensburg, the wife of J.T. Sands. He had two sons in the late war. Clinton died of fever in Vicksburg, and Levi died, after coming home, of consumption, contracted while in the service. Mr. Faulkner was an Odd Fellow for nearly 40 years, and a member of te Christian Church fifteen years.