Benjamin F. Funk was the son of John and Martha Kauffmann Funk in Springfield, Ohio. He received a B.A. and M.A. from Wittenburg College and ended his academic studies in 1872. He was engaged in various grocery businesses until Jan. 1877 when he entered a grocery business with his brother, John A. Funk, under the name of B.F. Funk and Co., and in 1882 began the management of a wholesale grocery firm. Seven years later, in 1889, the business was purchased by Steel, Hopkins and Meredith in the same year that Mr. Funk came to New York to become associated with Funk and Wagnalls Company which was started by his brother, Isaac Kauffmann Funk. He thus aided in publishing the first edition of the Standard Dictionary in 1890. He also began a model village on Staten Island in Westerleigh called Prohibition Park. He gave up his position at Funk & Wagnalls in 1897 to give more of his time to this model community.
The marriage of Benjamin F. Funk took place in Dayton, Ohio, on Sept. 17, 1872, to Cynthia E. Layton, daughter of Arthur and Rhoda Lowman Layton. Mr. and Mrs. Funk became the parents of six children: 1. John Arthur who married Sue Leinbach in Teheran, Persia, 2. Alverda died in 1887 at age 3, 3. Walter A. who married Chandos MacNeal of Golden, Co., 4. Merton Layton who married in Brooklyn, Marion Thompson, 5. Charles Earl who married Beulah M. Johnson and 6. Chester Carlyle who died in 1885 at the age of 1 year old. Benjamin F. Funk died Feb. 2, 1914 and was buried at Moravian Cemetery.
Taken in part from Staten Island and Its People, by Leng & Davis, Vol. III, 1930.
The marriage of Benjamin F. Funk took place in Dayton, Ohio, on Sept. 17, 1872, to Cynthia E. Layton, daughter of Arthur and Rhoda Lowman Layton. Mr. and Mrs. Funk became the parents of six children: 1. John Arthur who married Sue Leinbach in Teheran, Persia, 2. Alverda died in 1887 at age 3, 3. Walter A. who married Chandos MacNeal of Golden, Co., 4. Merton Layton who married in Brooklyn, Marion Thompson, 5. Charles Earl who married Beulah M. Johnson and 6. Chester Carlyle who died in 1885 at the age of 1 year old. Benjamin F. Funk died Feb. 2, 1914 and was buried at Moravian Cemetery.
Taken in part from Staten Island and Its People, by Leng & Davis, Vol. III, 1930.
Benjamin F. Funk was the son of John and Martha Kauffmann Funk in Springfield, Ohio. He received a B.A. and M.A. from Wittenburg College and ended his academic studies in 1872. He was engaged in various grocery businesses until Jan. 1877 when he entered a grocery business with his brother, John A. Funk, under the name of B.F. Funk and Co., and in 1882 began the management of a wholesale grocery firm. Seven years later, in 1889, the business was purchased by Steel, Hopkins and Meredith in the same year that Mr. Funk came to New York to become associated with Funk and Wagnalls Company which was started by his brother, Isaac Kauffmann Funk. He thus aided in publishing the first edition of the Standard Dictionary in 1890. He also began a model village on Staten Island in Westerleigh called Prohibition Park. He gave up his position at Funk & Wagnalls in 1897 to give more of his time to this model community.
The marriage of Benjamin F. Funk took place in Dayton, Ohio, on Sept. 17, 1872, to Cynthia E. Layton, daughter of Arthur and Rhoda Lowman Layton. Mr. and Mrs. Funk became the parents of six children: 1. John Arthur who married Sue Leinbach in Teheran, Persia, 2. Alverda died in 1887 at age 3, 3. Walter A. who married Chandos MacNeal of Golden, Co., 4. Merton Layton who married in Brooklyn, Marion Thompson, 5. Charles Earl who married Beulah M. Johnson and 6. Chester Carlyle who died in 1885 at the age of 1 year old. Benjamin F. Funk died Feb. 2, 1914 and was buried at Moravian Cemetery.
Taken in part from Staten Island and Its People, by Leng & Davis, Vol. III, 1930.
The marriage of Benjamin F. Funk took place in Dayton, Ohio, on Sept. 17, 1872, to Cynthia E. Layton, daughter of Arthur and Rhoda Lowman Layton. Mr. and Mrs. Funk became the parents of six children: 1. John Arthur who married Sue Leinbach in Teheran, Persia, 2. Alverda died in 1887 at age 3, 3. Walter A. who married Chandos MacNeal of Golden, Co., 4. Merton Layton who married in Brooklyn, Marion Thompson, 5. Charles Earl who married Beulah M. Johnson and 6. Chester Carlyle who died in 1885 at the age of 1 year old. Benjamin F. Funk died Feb. 2, 1914 and was buried at Moravian Cemetery.
Taken in part from Staten Island and Its People, by Leng & Davis, Vol. III, 1930.
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