Sterrett Faulkner, secretary and treasurer of the Dayton and Troy Automobile Company, and one of the progressive and energetic business men of Troy, was born in this city, a son of E. M. and Ella (Sterrett) Faulkner. E. M. Faulkner was for years the owner of a drug store at Troy, and after his son had completed a public school course he took a course in pharmacy at the Ohio Northern University at Ada and embarked in the drug business as his father's associate. In 1909 Mr. Faulkner turned his attention to the automobile business, and after having had several connections became secretary and treasurer of the Dayton and Troy Automobile Company, distributors of Ford automobiles at Dayton, Troy, Sidney and Piqua, with buildings at all of these cities. The business has grown and developed to large proportions, and at this time the company has an annual sale of 1,800 cars. Mr. Faulkner is an energetic and enterprising business man, possessed of fertility of commercial resource and being held in the highest confidence by his associates. He has several social and fraternal connections and has interested himself in civic affairs according to the dictates of good citizenship. His religious connection is with the Presbyterian church. Mr. Faulkner married Sadie, daughter of Arthur Beadle, of Troy, and they are the parents of one daughter, Dorothy. During the war period, Mr. Faulkner was in charge of the advertising and publicity departments of the Troy section in the various campaigns formulated to arouse interest in war activities.