When Chance Frank Funk was born on 19 June 1873, in Welborn, Kansas City, Wyandotte, Kansas, United States, his father, Cyrus B. Funk, was 31 and his mother, Anna Catherine Hollinger, was 31. He married Josephine David on 3 June 1902, in Jackson, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 daughters. He lived in Jackson, Missouri, United States in 1910. He died on 5 March 1929, in Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, United States, at the age of 55, and was buried in Mount Washington, Independence, Jackson, Missouri, United States.
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In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
During the response to civil rights violations to African Americans, the bill was passed giving African Americans equal treatment in public accommodations, public transportation, and to prohibit exclusion from jury duty. While many in the public opposed this law, the African Americans greatly favored it.
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
German: nickname for a blacksmith, or for a small and lively or irritable individual, from Middle High German vunke ‘spark’. This surname is also found Poland, Czechia, Sweden, Denmark, France (Alsace and Lorraine), and the Netherlands.
English: from Middle English funke, fonke, founck ‘spark of fire’, with the same meaning as 1 above.
History: Between 1709 and 1772 nine families bearing this name immigrated to America. See also Funck .
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