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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Presumed first edition. Octavo in jacket; 261 pages illustrations, portraits 23 cm; bibliographical references. Signed and inscribed by John Funk Kolb in year of publication. Contents: Ancestry and early years in Pennsylvania -- Business life and conversion in Chicago -- Productive years in Elkhart, Indiana -- Helping the Mennonite immigrants from Russia -- A valedictory sermon at ninety -- Autobiographical retrospect at ninety-two -- APPENDIX: The John Fretz Funk family -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS: John F. Funk at ninety -- Helen Kolb -- Jacob Funk, 1796-1875 -- Susanna Fretz Funk at 85 -- Jacob Funk home -- Jacob Kratz home -- Line Lexington Mennonite meetinghouse -- D. L. Moody in 1864 -- Bishop John McMullen, D.D., 1832-83 -- Building of John F. Funk and brother -- The Old Prairie Street frame meetinghouse -- Salome Kratz about 1890 -- The Genial Bishop, 1913 -- Salome Kratz Funk, 1913 -- Martha Funk, about 1890 -- Phoebe Funk and A. B. Kolb. ? "John Fretz Funk (1835 ? 1930) was a publisher and leader of the Mennonite Church. Funk published the Herald of Truth from 1864 until 1908 when it merged with the Gospel Witness to form the Gospel Herald. Jacob Clemens Kolb, in his preface to Bless the Lord, O My Soul quotes an unnamed commentator who said, "John F. Funk is the most important [Mennonite] man after Menno Simons."?Wikipedia. / Mennonites. Near fine in very good price-clipped jacket. In archival mylar.…