1899 Saint Paul City Directory. Louis Faulkner, born in Minnesota in 1865, was a stone carver who worked for the Purdy and Hutcheson Co. on the statuary and ornamental carving. He had previously been an instructor at the Armour Industrial School in Chicago.

The Stone Cutters' Journal of July 1899 reported that he had been accepted into the St. Paul Local on a traveling card from Albany, New York. Faulkner was active in the Union and, along with Albert Corwin, helped prepare an elaborate float for the 1899 Labor Day Parade. Faulkner traveled with his work and was in New York in 1905, possibly working on the U.S. Customs House, another Cass Gilbert commission. He is found in the 1910 Census in Texas and back in St. Peter, Minnesota in 1920 where he died on August 31st of that year.

Note: regarding Louis Faulkner's residence: it is possible that the location of Louis Faulkner's residence on our website is incorrect as street names have changed and/or disappeared in the intervening century. Louis Faulkner's probable residence was located on a street between Marion Street and Rice Avenue in Saint Paul, Minnesota, which is now a parking lot for the Saint Paul Sears department store.

We are indebted to Anne Faulkner, whose great grandfather was Louis Faulker's brother, for much of this information.