Dr. Clarence S. Faulkner
Utica Saturday Globe, August 1915
Dr. Clarence S. Faulkner
1885 - 1918
Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]: Dr. Clarence S. Faulkner, who during his High School years was a resident of Norwich, graduating from the Norwich high School, class of [1905?], has now returned to this city to practice medicine. Dr. Faulkner is the son of Mr. and Mrs. L. Faulkner, now residents of ---. The son, after leaving Norwich, completed a full course in Oberlin College, graduating in 1909 with a degree of A.B. Two years ago he graduated from the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons and since that time has been on the staff of Bellevue Hospital. The doctor is a member of the Calvary Baptist Church and of the Baraca -- of the Bible school.
Obituary
The Elizabethtown Post, October 24, 1918
Our last issue announced: "Dr. Faulkner is seriously ill." However, last Friday morning Elizabeth town was not only inexpressibly shocked but surrounding communities were saddened by the news that he had died at 8 o'clock Thursday night.
A graduate of the Norwich, N.Y., High School, Oberlin College at Oberlin, O., Columbia University, New York City, and having had special training at Bellevue Hospital, New York City, he came to Elizabethtown a few weeks after Dr. Wasson's death three years ago. In the spring of 1916 he married Miss Mary Hanlon, a trained nurse, and brought his bride to this (to him) matchless valley amid the Adirondack mountains. At once Dr. and Mrs. Faulkner took high rank here, everyone feeling that the need of the hour had been well filled. Dr. Faulkner had had the best of training and his wife thoroughly schooled in practical nursing went about with him doing good. After a few months, his venerable father joined the happy couple here and a little later Dr. Faulkner purchased a home on Maple Street where they were all happy. Dr. Faulkner easily made and as easily kept friends. He served on the Board of Education, became a member of Adirondack Lodge No. 602, F.&A.M., served as Health Officer, was a faithful member of the Elizabethtown Baptist church, a loyal citizen and a good neighbor. He wore himself out in an effort to relieve the sufferings of others and when taken down with that insidious disease, Spanish influenza, did not have sufficient vitality to throw it off and consequently pneumonia developed, the culmination being the supreme sacrifice. Moreover his wife was taken sick, also having pneumonia. A trained nurse from Plattsburgh did everything possible, going from bedside to bedside in her ministrations. Dr. Lymon Barton of Willsboro also came and did all he could. A prayer service was held at the house Monday afternoon, the Rev. L.R. Loomis officiating. The body was placed in the Kellogg Memorial vault and it is planned later, when Mrs. Faulkner recovers and it is safe for people to congregate, to have a memorial service in the Baptist Chruch and a Masonic service at the grave in that beautiful God's Acre, Riverside Cemetery. Central Essex County residents, generally appreciating as they do, the useful work Dr. Faulkner was doing not only sympathize deeply with the surviving brother, the venerable father and last but not least the grief stricken widow, but in addition to this feel that this death is in the nature of a public calamity. As for Elizabethtown residents, with all due deference to others who have gone before, it is not too much to say that people here feel that the death of Dr. Faulkner under all the surrounding circumstances at this particular time, is the worst blow the present generation has been called upon to stand. In the prime of life, clean living, companionable, eminently helpful in every way, he was taken ere many of his neighbors knew he was ill. The bereaved family have the sincere sympathy of all who knew Dr. Faulkner. Deprived as the relatives are of such a good and true man, may He who notes even the sparrow's fall sustain, comfort and cheer.
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When Death come knocking at the door of the household and takes from the family and the community a young and capable and useful man like Clarence S. Faulkner, one hardly knows how to express one's thoughts or feelings, so thorough has been the shock.
Clarence S. Faulkner, having been born of and reared by Christian parents, in the open country, close to nature; having been graduated from Oberlin College after the four year prescribed course; having then completed a four years' study of medicine in Columbia University followed by a thorough training in Bellevue Hospital, was in all respects, fitted, not only for his profession, but for the broader and more practical duties of life as well. His was an intellect capable of grasping and penetrating the very depths of Knowledge herself, as a result of which ability he was well read in history, science and literature. While he lived only thirty-three short years, Clarence S. Faulkner enjoyed life to the full. He delighted in the mountains hereabout and frequently talked of their beauty and grandeur. He was kind and tender in his treatment of man and animal, their pain or misfortune always being his. Few people enjoy hunting and fishing more than he did and since he has resided in Elizabethtown they have been practically his only recreation, so heavy were the demands of his profession and so faithful was he to those demands. He disliked cats because they killed birds but was fond of and interested in all other animals. Dr. Faulkner was a man of ideals rather above the average. He was courageous and fearless in doing what he thought was for the best. he was highly interested in the community in which he lived, never too busy to give thought and time to its welfare. He loved his home. The hours he spent by his own fireside, in the seclusion of family privacy, were the ones he most enjoyed. He was progressive to the utmost. Even though his practice demanded his services day and night he still found time to devote to his Country in giving to and helping the Red Cross and in working for and subscribing to the Liberty Loans. His was a quiet but true patriotism, better than which no man possesses. Finally, one of the most admirable characteristics in Dr. Faulkner was the high regard in which he held the ethics of his profession. He never discussed his patients' sicknesses or trials, unless he had a reason for doing so with some one working in his own line of work. He gave up his life to his profession. Greater love hath no man than this--that he give up his life for those in distress. In the words of the poet it can be truly said:
"He so lived that when his summons came to join that innumerable caravan that moves to that mysterious realm where each shall take his place in the silent halls of death, he went, not as a quarry slave at night, scourged to his dungeon, but sustained and soothed by an unfaltering trust, approached his grave like one who, wrapping the draperies of his couch about him, lies down to pleasant dreams."
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