Henry Conrad Faller (August 14, 1927 – March 21, 2012) was an American businessman. In 1970, he established ''

Uncle Henry's ''Uncle Henry's'' is an American online and printed classified advertisements repository, founded by Henry Faller and Helen Faller in Rockland, Maine, and printed in Augusta, Maine, United States. Established in 1970, ''Uncle Henry's'' helps peo ...

'', a

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repository. It later gained an online version. They are both active today.

Early life

Faller was born in

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, in 1927,In Memory of Henry Conrad Faller
- Burpee, Carpenter & Hutchins Funeral Home the son of William and Cecilia. He graduated from Northeastern School of Taxidermy.

Career

In 1945, Faller joined the U.S. Navy, in which he was stationed on the aircraft carrier the USS ''Shangri-La''. After discharge, he worked at Studebaker Corporation in Russell Park, New Jersey. Faller began working at FMC Marine Colloids, before becoming assistant manager at

F. W. Woolworth Frank Winfield Woolworth (April 13, 1852 – April 8, 1919) was an American entrepreneur, the founder of F. W. Woolworth Company, and the operator of variety stores known as "Five-and-Dimes" (5- and 10-cent stores or dime stores) which featured a ...

department store. He also worked briefly at J. J. Newberry's on Main Street in

Rockland, Maine Rockland is a city in and the county seat of Knox County, Maine, United States. As of the United States Census, 2020, 2020 census, the town population was 6,936. The city is a popular tourist destination. It is a departure point for the Maine S ...

. Deciding he wanted to become a printer, he began apprenticeship at Bald Mountain Press in Rockland. Faller started his own printing establishment, the Village Print Shop, on Main Street in Rockland, in 1968. He printed the first edition of ''

'' in 1970. The Fallers sold their business and retired in 1989.

Personal life

Faller married Helen Sonnenberg in 1952, a year after they met, and the couple moved to

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, to live and raise their family of three daughters and one son. He learned the art of

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from an uncle, and some of his work was showing at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. He was also a sculptor, and his "Ballerina" was on display at Rockland's

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. Faller was also a

horse breeder Horse breeding is reproduction in horses, and particularly the human-directed process of selective breeding of animals, particularly purebred horses of a given breed. Planned matings can be used to produce specifically desired characteristics in ...

, at one time owning four horses. He was a member of the

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, Council 136. Faller died in 2012, after due to

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. His wife of sixty years, who co-founded ''Uncle Henry's'', survived him by eleven years. She died in 2023, aged 92. They are both interred in Coughlin Cemetery in Rockland.

References

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