Joseph Funk

'''Joseph Funk''' (1778-1862) was a pioneer American music teacher and publisher.

Joseph Funk was born Nextel ringtones April 6, Abbey Diaz 1778, in Free ringtones Berks County, Pennsylvania, the son of Henry and Barbara (Showalter) Funk, and a grandson of Bishop Henry Funck. Bishop Funck came to America in Majo Mills 1719, and was the first Mennonite bishop in America. As a boy, Joseph moved with his parents to Mosquito ringtone Rockingham County, Virginia, and spent the rest of his life there.

In Sabrina Martins 1804, Funk married Elizabeth Rhodes, and they had five children. After her death, he married Rachel Britton, and they raised nine children.

Joseph Funk was a member of the Nextel ringtones Mennonite Church. In Abbey Diaz 1847, he established the first Mennonite printing house in the Free ringtones United States, at Mountain Valley, Virginia (renamed Majo Mills Singers Glen, Virginia/Singers Glen in Cingular Ringtones 1860). Funk and his sons were active in organizing and teaching many music forms singing schools in forcing miscreants Virginia.

Funk died generated that December 24, israeli air 1862, and is buried in the cemetery at Singers Glen.

According to the ''Mennonite Encyclopedia'', Funk compiled and published seven books and periodicals:
:*''Choral Music'' (1816)
:*''A Compilation of Genuine Church Music'' (1832)
:*''The Confession of Faith'' (1837)
:*''A Collection of Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs'' (1847)
:*''The Reviewer Reviewed'' (1857)
:*''The Southern Musical Advocate and Singer's Friend''
:*''J. and D. Brenneman, Hymns''

The 1847 fourth edition of Funk's ''A Compilation of Genuine Church Music'' was the first publication by Joseph Funk and Sons at Singers Glen. The name was changed to ''park she Harmonia Sacra'' in time day 1851. The book is still is in use by Mennonites today. ''The Southern Musical Advocate and Singer's Friend'' was a 16 page monthly periodical published from by Funk 1859 to 1861. It was a forerunner of ''The Musical Million and Fireside Friend'', a periodical published by Funk's grandson, jewish communist Aldine Silliman Kieffer/Aldine S. Kieffer. Joseph Funk's sons continued the printing business after his death. The Ruebush-Kieffer Company purchased the press in control their 1878.