Ventura County Biographies

George W. Faulkner

Submitted by Sandy Neder

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George W. Faulkner is the son of George Faulkner, who was born in England in 
1806, came to Ohio in 1838, and settled on a farm in Richland County, where he 
still lives and where, August 16, 1846, his son, George W., was born. Mr. 
Faulkner's mother was nee Julia A. Green, a native of Franklin County, Ohio. Her 
father, William Green, was a pioneer in Ohio, and built the third house in the 
township in which he lived. The subject of this sketch was the fourth of a 
family of six children, was reared and educated in Ohio, and was engaged in 
agricultural pursuits on the farm on which he was born until coming to Ventura 
County, California, in 1879. He purchased seventy-three acres of land near New 
Jerusalem, and three years later came to his present location, near Santa Paula. 
Here he bought a farm of 150 acres, on which he has made many improvements, 
planting trees and building a large barn. He has not yet built his new house, 
but has selected a beautiful building site and already has the grounds planted 
with shrubbery and trees. Mr. Faulkner has eighteen acres of apricots and a 
general assortment of prunes, apples, pears and citrus fruits, and has 
twenty-eight acres of bearing walnut trees. This place presents a fine 
appearance with its flowers, fruit-trees, ponderous barn, and well kept stock 
grazing in the green pastures. Mr. Faulkner is carrying on general farming, but 
the crop of which he makes a specialty is Lima beans, raising as high as a ton 
to the acre, the price being now four and a half cents per pound. He employs two 
farm hands all the time and often more.
    Mr. Faulkner was united in marriage to Miss Roda S. Seymour, a graduate of 
Baldwin University, class of '72. She is a native of Ohio, and a daughter of 
Rev. S.D. Seymour, of the North Ohio Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, now 
a resident of Texas. Mr. and Mrs. Faulkner are the parents of two daughters and 
one son: Alpha and Stella, born in New Jerusalem, and George Seymour, in Santa 
Paula. Mr. Faulkner is forty years older than his little son, and his father is 
forty years his senior. He showed the writer something unique in the way of a 
picture, the three portraits, father, son and grandson, being arranged on one 
card.
    Mr. and Mrs. Faulkner are members of the Methodist Church. Politically he is 
a Prohibitionist.
BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF THE COUNTIES OF SANTA BARBARA, SAN LUIS 
OBISPO, AND VENTURA, CALIF. by Ida Addis Storke, 1891, p 559