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ABRAM ASA FUNK.

Abram Asa Funk, an enterprising, up-to-date and progressive agriculturist of Henry county, devotes his energies to the cultivation of his well improved farm of eighty acres on section 31, Cornwall township, and likewise follows surveying to some extent. He was born on section 31, Cornwall township, on the 23d of November, 1874 , his parents being George and Rebecca (Funk) Funk. who are mentioned at greater length on another page of this volume.

Mr. Funk was reared on the home farm and attended the district school until about seventeen years of age, when he entered the Geneseo Collegiate Institute at Geneseo, from which institution he was graduated with the class of 1894. Returning to the home farm, he was actively engaged in its operation in association with his father until 1900, when he purchased property of his own. About 1897 he took up a study of civil engineering through the medium of the International School of Correspondence of Scranton , Pennsylvania , and completed the prescribed course in 1905, having mastered the profession while carrying on his agricultural interests. As before stated, he came into possession of a farm of his own in 1900, having accumulated sufficient capital to enable him to purchase eighty acres of land in Cornwall township at fifty dollars an acre. There were no buildings on the property but he has since erected a nice residence as well as all necessary barns and outbuildings, and everything about the place indicates in its neat and thrifty appearance the supervision of a practical and progressive owner.

In addition to the work of farming he is also engaged in surveying to some extent, having gained a good knowledge of that profession through his correspondence course. In 1907 he took up the work prescribed in a five years' course of study by the American School of Correspondence, which was established by the Armour Institute of Technology. He uses the latest improved machinery to facilitate the work of the fields and has gained an enviable reputation as a wide-awake, alert and enterprising agriculturist as well as substantial citizen of the community.

On the 7th of January, 1902 , in Munson township, Mr. Funk was united in marriage to Miss Carrie Belle Hunter, a daughter of Henderson and Margaret ( Ferguson ) Hunter, who are natives of Ohio and Henry county, Illinois , re spectively. Henderson Hunter came to this county with his parents, was here married and now resides with his wife at Cambridge . Mrs. Funk supplemented her preliminary education by two years' attendance at the Geneseo Collegiate Institute and also took a special course in music. Both she and her husband have an extensive circle of warm friends throughout the county in which their entire fives have been spent and the hospitality of the best homes is cordially extended them.

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