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FUNK, Benjamin Franklin, representative, was born in Fuuk"s Grove township, McLean county, III., Oct. 17, 1838; son of Isaac Funk. He attended Illinois Wesleyan university for three years and in 1866-69 engaged in fanning. In 1869 he removed to Bloomington, 111., and in 1871 was elected mayor of the city, serving seven consecutive terms. He was a delegate to the Republican national convention in 1888 and was a Republican representative in the 53d congress, 1893-95. He was elected a trustee of Illinois Wesleyan university in 1874 and was president of the board of trustees of that institution, 1876-93.

FUNK, Isaac, pioneer, was born in Clark county, Ky., in 1797, of German parentage. In 1833 he removed to Illinois and entered a tract of land which became known as Funk's Grove, JIcLean county, where he accumulated a fort- une as a stock dealer. He was a representative in the Illinois general assembly in 1840 and a state senator, 1861-65. He was an earnest Union man during the war and supported the govern- ment in the state legislature. He founded the Isaac Funk professorship of chemistry and zool- ogy in the Illinois Wesleyan vmi versify, agreeing to endow it with §10,000, which promise his chil- dren carried out after his death. He died at Funk's Grove, 111., in 1865.

FUNK, Isaac Kaufman, publisher, was born in Clifton. Ohio, Sept. 10, 1839; son of John and Martlia (Kaufman) Funk; grandson of Henry Funk ; and a descendant of Henrj' Funk of Lan- caster county, Pa., who emigi-ated from Switzer- land to Holland, being forced to leave on accoimt of his religious beliefs. Isaac was graduated from Wittenberg college, Ohio, in 1860, and from the Wittenberg theological seminary in 1861. He filled several pastorates between 1861 and 1872, when he removed to New York city and engaged in publishing, first as I. K. Funk, and shortly afterward as Funk & Wagnalls. He foimded and became editor of The Metropolitan Pulpit in 1876, which was merged into the Homiletic Jleview in 1885. He foimded the Voice in 1880 ; the 3Iis- sioiiary lievieio in 1888, and the Literary Di'jeH in 1889. He organized and was president of Funk and Wagnalls Co. and was editor-in-chief of the Standard Dictionary, 1890-95. He is the author and compiler of many works of reference. He received from Wittenberg the degree of D.D. and in 1896 the degree of LL.D.

FUNSTEN, James Bowen, first missionary bishop of Bois6 and 191st in succes.sion in the American episcopate, was born at The Highlands, Clarke county, Va., July 33, 18.56. He was grad- uated at the Virginia military institute in 1875, and at the Univer.sity of Virginia. LL.B. in 1878. He took his theological course at Virginia theo-

logical seminary and was ordained a deacon, June 23, 1883, in the seminary chapel at Alex- andria, Va., by Bishop Whittle, and priest iu same place by Bishop Peterkin in 1883. He wa» missionary at Bristol, Tenn., and Marion, Va., 1883-84; rector of Christ church, Richmond, Va , 1884-90; general missionary of the diocese, 1890- 93; and rector of Trinity church, Portsmouth, Va., 1893-99. At the general convention of 189S he was elected missionary bishop of Boisfi, a new see created out of portions of the missionary dis- trict of Idaho and Wyoming, vacated by the Rt. Rev. Ethelbert Talbot, elected bishop of Central Pennsylvania. He was consecrated in Trinity church, Portsmouth, Va., July 13, 1899. by- Bishops Whittle, Whitaker, Penick, Peterkin, Randolph. Paret. Talbot and Cheshire.

FUNSTON, Edward Hogue, representative, was born in Bethel township, Clarke county, Ohio, Sept. 16, 1836; son of Frederick and Julia (Stafford) Funston; and grandson of Paul Fim- ston. His father came from county Donegal, Ireland, with his parents after 1800, and settleJ in Paris, Ky., whence he removed to Clarke county, Ohio. His maternal grandfather wa9 also a native of Ireland and his maternal grand- mother a Hogue of Virginia. Edward attended the public schools, New Carlisle academy and Marietta college. In 1861 he entered the army as lieutenant in the 16th Ohio battery. He par- ticipated in the principal engagements along the Mississippi river and was mustered out in 1865. In 1867 he removed to a prairie farm in the town- ship of Carlyle, Kan. He was elected to the Kansas house of representatives, 1873, 1874 and 1875, was speaker in 1875, and was elected to the state senate in 1880, of which he was made president pi^'o tempore. He was a Republican representative from the 2d Kansas district in the 48th-53d congresses, inclusive, 1885-97. He was married to Ann E. IMitchell, a native of Ohio, and granddaughter of a sister of Daniel Boone.

FUNSTON, Frederick, soldier, was born in New Carlisle, Ohio, Nov. 9, 1865; son of Edward Hogue and Ann E. (Mitchell) Funston. His family removed to Carlyle, Kan., in 1867 and he was graduated from the high school, lola, Kan., in 1886. He attended the State univer- sity at Lawrence, Kan., 1885-88, but was not graduated. He was employed by the Santa F6 railroad in 1888-89; engaged as a newspaper reporter in Kansas city in 1890, and was later city editor of the Tribune at Fort Smith, Ark. He was botanist of the United States Death Valley expedition in 1891 ; appointed by the commissioner of the department of agricult- ure to explore Alaska and report on its flora in 1893; was camped on the Klondike during the winter of 1893-94, and floated down the Yukon