Funks Grove

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Articles

A small selection of Pages from our Past articles written by Bill Kemp

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‘I-house’ early Corn Belt architectural style

Along Illinois Route 165 between the rural communities of Cooksville and Colfax in eastern McLe...

Article

Biographies

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Funk, Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin Funk was born on October 17, 1837 to Isaac and Cassandra Funk. Benjamin was t...

Biography

Blog

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James Moberly Farm Funks Grove Township, May 1936

This photograph was one in a series featured in the May 23, 1936 Pantagraph under the headline ...

Blog Post

Photo of the Week, 9: Funks Grove, March 1932

Sap from the sugar maple begins to run during the warmer days and cold nights of February and M...

Blog Post

Farming in the Great Corn Belt

Digital Exhibit

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1853 to 1899: Feeding and Breeding Livestock

As McLean County farms grew in size, so too did the farmers' ability to raise livestock fo...

Digital Exhibit

A Scientific Revolution: Eugene Funk and Hybrid Corn

In 1883 McLean County farmer and entrepreneur Eugene D. Funk began to develop a modern system o...

Digital Exhibit

Nature's Forces

The McLean County farmers’ ability to make good choices drove their success or failure. But wit...

Digital Exhibit

Finding Aids

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Funk Family

Brothers Isaac and Absalom Funk came to Illinois via Ohio in 1824. Working together the brother...

Finding Aid

Irish Immigrants Collection

Irish immigrants first arrived in large numbers to McLean County in the early 1850s. Initially,...

Finding Aid

Stubblefield – Funk Reunion Minutes

Robert Stubblefield and Isaac Funk were very early settlers of McLean County in what is today F...

Finding Aid

Speakers Bureau

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Pioneer Cattle and Hog Droving

Speakers Bureau