Following his father's death in 1866, George Falkenstein took a job with a local grain mill to help support his mother and siblings.
[2][3] Following his graduation from Oberlin, Falkenstein relocated west in order to accept teaching positions in Kansas and Illinois.
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.
[4][5] Falkenstein died in Pennsylvania on August 17, 1949, and was interred at Bupps Union Cemetery in Seven Valleys, York County.