Background
Funk, Charles Earle was born on April 4, 1881 in Springfield, Ohio, United States. Son of Benjamin F. and Cynthia (Layton) Funk.
Funk, Charles Earle was born on April 4, 1881 in Springfield, Ohio, United States. Son of Benjamin F. and Cynthia (Layton) Funk.
Student New York University, 1899-1902. Bachelor of Science, University of Colorado, 1904. Doctor of Letters, Wittenberg College, 1937.
Engineer, Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho and Oregon, 1904-1911, associate editor The Engineering Magazine, 1911-1915, managing editor, 1915-1917. Editor and secretary Industrial Extension Institute, 1916-1922. Associate editor New Standard Dictionary and abridgments, 1921-1927, 1931-1938, editor, 1939-1947.
Associate editor Lexicographer’s Easy Chair, 1931-1937.
Associate editor New Standard Encyclopedia, 1931, New International Year Books, 1932-1938, editor, 1939-1947. Consultant editor, Funk & Wagnalls Company, since 1947.
Radio quiz program Say lieutenant with Words, Mutual network, 1938. Syndicated column, Power with Words, 1951-1953.
Interim speech consultant C.B.S., 1950-1951.
Compiler: (with L. A. Leslie) 25,000 Words Spelled, Divided, and Accented, 1935. Author: What’s the Name, Please?, 1936. A Hog on Ice, and Other Sayings, 1948.
Thereby Hangs a Tale, 1950.
Heavens to Betsy, and Other Savings, 1955. Horsefeathers, 1958. Editor: (with Doctor Frank H. Vizetelly) New Comprehensive Standard Dictionary, 1937.
Editor Standard Junior Dictionary, 1939. New Practical Standard Dictionary, 1946.
New College Standard Dictionary, 1947.
Member Zeta Psi.; Mason. Clubs: Rotary, Mount Dora Bowling.
Married Beulah Messinger Johnson, October 23, 1912. Children: Charles Earle, John Capron, Marion Elizabeth (Mistress Gene Valente), Donald Messinger, Priscilla Ann (Mistress Arthur T. Martin), William Benjamin.