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WILLIAM T. FALCONER. The Falconers who have added to the stability and growth of Jamestown are direct descendants of Robert Falconer, of North Scotland, who, on leaving Oxford university about 1800, came to New York and engaged with William Stewart in shipping cotton between Charleston and Liverpool. He afterwards became a dealer and speculator in real estate in eastern Pennsylvania, finally removing with his family to Warren county, Penna., where he embarked in the banking business and became the first president of the Lumbermen’s Bank, of Warren. Robert Falconer was a man of marked intelligence and good business capacity. He was also noted for his uniform kindness, his strict integrity, and his interest in the material and intellectual development of his county, which qualities made him one of the foremost citizens and most respected men of Warren county. His death occurred in 1850.

His three sons, Robert, Patrick and William, survived him; the former lived at Sugar Grove, Penna., and was the father of two sons: Nathaniel, of Warren, Penna., and Robert, of Jamestown, New York. Patrick and William were formerly the owners of extensive lumber and mill interests at Kennedy and Falconer, New York, and were numbered among the useful and solid men of their respective towns. Patrick died in 1887, leaving two sons, William and Allen, the former of whom is now carrying on large manufacturing interests at Falconer, New York, while the latter is a clerk in the Jamestown National Bank. William, Sr., youngest son of Robert Falconer, died at Kennedy, New York, in 1880, leaving two sons, Archie and Frank, both of whom reside in Jamestown, but are at present students in a Michigan college.