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''George Ness Falkenstein''' (July 16, 1859 – August 17, 1949)<ref>http{{Cite web |title=Elizabethtown College - Page Not Found |url=https://www.etown.edu/newserrorpages/ec404.aspx?newsidaspxerrorpath=2807&dept/news.aspx |access-date=292024-01-21 |website=www.etown.edu}}</ref> iswas a former president of [[Elizabethtown College]].

Following his graduation from Oberlin, Falkenstein relocated west in order to accept teaching positions in Kansas and Illinois. He also supported himself as a wheat farmer and harvester. He subsequently returned east, married Eva Shellenberger, and launched a business venture with her in Kansas. When it failed, he returned to teaching; however, his job-security was compromised when a blizzard forced the closure of the school in 1888; a tornado then damaged his family's home later that same year. Briefly employed as a member of the science faculty at Mount Morris College, he packed up his family and moved east again in 1893 in order to accept a position as a minister with the Church of the Brethren in Germantown, Pennsylvania, where he remained until 1900. As the new century dawned, he then became involved in the planning of a new academic institution - Elizabethtown College, and moved his family west to become a staff member and then, in 1901 and 1902, the college's president.<ref>Ferree, "George Ness Falkenstein," Elizabethtown College.</ref><ref>http{{Cite web |title=Elizabethtown College - Page Not Found |url=https://www.etown.edu/Presidenterrorpages/ec404.aspx?topicaspxerrorpath=Presidential+History+of+Elizabethtown+College&skin/President.aspx |access-date=0&department2024-01-21 |website=290www.etown.edu}}</ref>