Today is the birthdate of Isaac Funk who with Adam Wagnalls gave us Funk & Wagnalls dictionary and encyclopedia. Tragically Funk died in 1912, well before he could get down to the music that would ...
Today is the birthdate of Isaac Funk who with Adam Wagnalls gave us Funk & Wagnalls dictionary and encyclopedia. Tragically Funk died in 1912, well before he could get down to the music that would ...
It's a home worthy of superlatives; grand in scale and extremely decorative. The Dr. Isaac K. Funk house was built in 1893 on a very visible corner in "Prohibition Park," now known as Westerleigh.
SHIRLEY - In the 1820s Isaac Funk arrived in Central Illinois, helping to settle the grove of maple trees that now bears his family name.
Think of “Abercrombie” and your mind will echo “Fitch,” “Montgomery” calls up “Ward.” Other familiar name-links are Hart, Schaffner & Marx; Weber & Heilbroner; Gallagher & Shean; Sears, Roebuck; Acker ...
Illinois transplants Abraham Lincoln and Isaac Funk were friends who changed history. The former became the nation's 16th president, while Funk and his progeny shaped Midwestern agriculture and land ...