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       John K. Funk was born about 1795 in Pennsylvania. John was married to Catherine and was a chemist.

       Andrew J., a son of John and Catherine, was a tooth manufacturer (dentist).

       John and Catherine's other son, William, was shown as a starchmaker in the 1850 census and a chemist in the 1860 census. He married Wilhelmina. The following is his obituary:

Dies in a Street Car, The Sudden Ending of William Funk, An Aged Chemist - Depressed in Spirits When He Left Home to Attend the Meeting of a Building Association. Whether it was a premonition of danger or not when William Funk, the aged chemist who rounded out a half century in the service of Power & Weightman, left his home, 823 North Ninth street, last evening, he replied in answer to the question as to the hour of his return, that he did not know when he would be back. It may have been an hour - not more than three at the most - that his lifeless body was taken from car 46 on the Fifth and Sixth street line as it neared Third and Berks street, and that a dispatch was dashed over the wires that he had died suddenly, no cause being assigned. At his late residence, at 1 o'clock this morning, no word of the fatal ending had come to the aged widow - only the brief request to come at once to the Eighteenth District Station House. Inmates of the house said that he had started to attend the meetingof the building association, of which he was the secretary, at Frankford road and York street, and that on such occasions it was his habit to return at 11 o'clock. During the past two or three days he had seemed very depressed in spirits, but did not appear to be ailing of disease, either physically or mentally. He had an attack of the grip some weeks ago, but had fully recovered and no one supposed that he was threatened with any sudden attack of illness. Mr. Funk was in the possession of a secret regarding the manufacture of quinine that he is said he carried with him to the grave. Besides his widow, he leaves two sons, who are also chemists. One, William Funk, Jr., resides in Roxborough (??not sure) and the other Henry in Jessup street, between Tenth and Eleventh. (It is hard to read from here for specifics. General idea: both sons also worked for Power and Weightman. He also had one daughter. He was also predominant in Fellow circles.)

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