Isaac Kauffman Funk

Isaac Kauffman Funk (born Sept. 10, 1839, Clifton, Ohio, U.S.—died April 4, 1912) was an American publisher who was also a Lutheran minister, religious journalist, Prohibition Party publicist, and spelling reformer. Funk graduated from Wittenberg College, Springfield, Ohio, in 1860 and was ordained a Lutheran minister the following year. Resigning his pulpit in 1872 he traveled in Europe and the Middle East. After his return to the United States he helped edit the Christian Radical....