Joseph Funk resided in Singers Glen, near Harrisonburg, Virginia. He was a land owner and farmer, schoolmaster, translator of religious works, the author and publisher of music books and several controversial pamphlets, head of a printing, publishing and bookbinding firm, and a famous itinerant teacher of vocal music. He is credited with having established the first Mennonite printing press in the United States, in 1847.
Members of the Funk family of Rockingham County, Virginia, represented in this collection are Joseph Funk (1777-1862) and his sons, Joseph (1816- ), David (1818-1870), Samuel (1819- ), John (1822- ), Timothy (1824-1909), Solomon (1825-1880), and Benjamin (1829- ).
From the description of Correspondence, 1833-c. 1860. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 207136928
