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Funk's Grove Township, McLean County, Illinois. / 40.363252; -89.111827. Funk's Grove Township is a township in McLean County, Illinois. As of the 2010 census, its population was 245 and it contained 105 housing units. [1]
Family patriarch Isaac Funk. The Funks and Stubblefields were among the first settlers in the county and put down roots in the area now known as Funks Grove, Illinois. In 1824, brothers Isaac and Absalom Funk, the sons of Adam Funk, Jr., moved to McLean County. Six months later in December 1824, Dorothy Funk Stubblefield and husband Robert ...
Duncan McArthur Funk was born on June 1, 1832, in Funks Grove, Illinois, to Cassandra (Sharp) and Isaac Funk. He attended public schools and assisted with managing the family lands. When Funk was twenty-five, he left the farm to open a store in Bloomington, Illinois, as Temple & Funk. He co-owned the store until 1866, when he returned to tend ...
July 12, 2021 at 4:31 PM. Jul. 12—COLUMBUS GROVE — A new specialty grocery store is open in Columbus Grove. Farmhouse Market and Deli is now occupying the former Kohls Market, 108 W. Sycamore ...
Funks Grove, Illinois. Profession. Rancher. Signature. Isaac Funk (November 17, 1797 – January 29, 1865) was an American rancher and politician, originally from Kentucky. In the 1820s, he founded Funks Grove, Illinois, in McLean County, Illinois, with his brother and became a prominent cattle trader. Funk was elected to one term in the ...
Funk Farms was founded in 1824 by brothers Isaac and Absalom Funk in McLean County, Illinois. From a historical perspective, Abraham Lincoln was one of Funk Farms' first attorneys and later served in the Illinois House of Representatives with Isaac Funk. Isaac was a friend of Lincoln's and an early booster when Lincoln ran for U.S. president.
Mayor's courts are state courts in Ohio created by some municipalities.Mayor's courts hear traffic cases, violations of city ordinances and other misdemeanors.The presiding officer is a magistrate (not a judge) appointed by the mayor, or even being the mayor, and paid by the city or village.
Joseph M. Briggs. Joseph M. Briggs was born on November 25, 1833 [1] to Nicholas Joseph Briggs and Martha J. Chambers in Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. Joseph M. Briggs was raised on the family's home farm and attended Ohio Wesleyan University, where he met his wife Louisiana Ransburgh, who was 17 years old at the time, 16 years younger.