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DUNCAN M. FUNK, Bloomington, was born June 18, 1832; he was the son of Isaac Funk. He was married April 17,1857, to Elizabeth Richardson, and has two children— Isabel and Isaac Lincoln. He lived on the farm until 1857, when he removed to Bloomington, where he now resides; he carries on his large farm of 2,200 acres by the aid of tenants; he feeds cattle, on a moderate scale, generally having about four hundred head of cattle and hogs. From 1857 to 1866, he was a partner in the mercantile trade with W. H. Temple. For the past four years he has been President of the National Bank of Bloomington; he has been Assistant Supervisor of the township of Bloomington four years, and is at present one of the three members of the Board of Trustees of the Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home, at Normal. Mr. Funk is one of the most careful of our leading business men, one whose judgment in public matters is highly respected.