Daniel D. Funk
Daniel D. Funk is a son of Jacob and Mary (Drukemiller) Funk, natives of Lehigh County, Penn. About 1820 they came to Holmes County, Ohio, and entered eighty acres of land in Walnut Creek Township, where they engaged in farming. Mr. Funk was a millwright, a trade at which he worked in connection with farming. He was one of the representative men of the township, an active worker of the Democratic party, and a prominent member of the German Reformed Church. He died in 1867, his wife having preceded him in 1861. They reared a family of nine children, six of whom are still living: Charles, in Tuscarawas County; Jacob, Henry and Benjamin, in DeKalb County, Ind.; Daniel D., and Hettie (wife of Joseph Showalter) in DeKalb County, Ind.
The subject of this sketch was born in Walnut Creek Township, December 21, 1830, attending the township schools, and after finishing his education, learned the carpenter's trade, which he followed for some years. In 1854 he engaged as a clerk in a general mercantile store at Farmerstown. In 1868 he purchased his present farm of 180 acres, where he has since resided. October 7, 1860, he was united in marriage with Miss Mary Ann, daughter of Solomon W. Forver, of German Township, and six children have been born to this union, all of whom are at home: Allen Winfield, Ulysses Ambrose, Lloyd Emery, Ira Ceto, Ida May and Clemence Barbara. Mr. Funk is a stanch Republican, and has served as justice of the peace for nine years. He has also filled various other township offices. He is a member of Spartan Lodge, F. & A.M., of Millersburgh, and of New Bedford Lodge, I.O.O.F.; is a trustee of the German Reformed Church, of which he and his family are members.
From Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Wayne and Holmes, Ohio, J. H. Beers & Co., Chicago, 1889