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  1. SUBJECT:

    2. Funk Printing House.

  2. LOCATION:

    3. Singers Glen, Virginia.

  3. DATE:

    4. About 1847.

  4. OWNERS:

    5. 1816 Joseph Funk, descended to Joseph and John Funk 1863. Descended to his great-great granddaughter Annie Lou Dodd the present owner in 1880.

  5. DESCRIPTION:

    6. The building which housed the Printing business has been torn down. The house which he built and lived in still stands.

  6. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

    7. Joseph Funk was born in Burke County, Pennsylvania March 9, 2024 and died at his home in Singers glen, Virginia, December 24, 1882. He was teacher, author, translator, compiler and publisher. His printing establishment was opened at Mountain Valley now singers Glen, Virginia in 1847 and is said to be the first Mennonite Printing House in America. This was kept up by himself and his sons until 1863 and then by his sons until 1878. The Ruebush-Kieffer Press establishment at Dayton Virginia, in 1878, continues his work until the present time.

  7. ART:
  8. SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant: Mr. Ott Mowbury, Rev. Childress, Singers Glen, Virginia.

A History of Rockingham County by J.W. Wayland.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

October 20, 1936 Miles E. Snyder

Harrisonburg, VA