Funk, Benjamin F
soldier, congressman, was born Oct. 17, 1838, in Funk's Grove, Ill. He served during the civil war as a private in the sixty-eighth Illinois infantry. He removed to Bloomington in 1869; and was elected mayor of that city in 1871, and was re-elected six times consecutively. He was elected to the fiftythird congress as a republican. FUNKHOUSER, A. PAUL, educator, journalist, statesman, was born Dec. 10, 1853, near Dayton, Va. Although licensed to preach since he was sixteen years of age, he is best known as an educator.
He founded the Shenandoah institute of Dayton, Va., and was superintendent of the Rockingham county schools for three years, winning the only Peabody silver medal given for the most efficient school work in the state. He also served as president of Western college, Iowa; and for fifteen years has been manager of the Shenandoah Valley Chautauqua assembly, which he founded. He started the State Republican in 1883. He was a delegate, to the national republican convention at Chicago in 1888; presidential elector in 1892; state canvasser in 1896; and republican candidate for the state senate in 1895.