Sacramento County
Biographies
WILLIAM H. (BILL) FUNK
WILLIAM H. (BILL) Funk.--An
enterprising and progressive manager for Foster & Kleiser
Company, who own and operate outdoor advertising plants in over 500 cities on
the Pacific Coast,
is William H. Funk, who is familiarly known at Bill Funk. Bill’s territory covers sixty-one towns, from
Modesto to the Oregon line and from
Dixon to Nevada. He is a native of the Prairie
State, having been born in Bloomington,
Ill., over forty years ago.
William
H. Funk finished the work of the public schools and then attended the state
normal school; and then he studied at the university at Bloomington,
Ill.
He was next in the theatrical business for a number of years; in each
field acquiring more and more valuable experience as the years went by. He was thus well-equipped when, in 1900, he
decided to come out to the state called Golden.
In 1908, he came to Sacramento,
and in 1910 he established an important service for the placing of outdoor
advertising. Not only has he particular
gifts for this work, but is ever-hustling, never in any sense behind any of his
competitors; hence he has been phenomenally successful. He belongs to the Chamber of Commerce of
Sacramento, the Ad. Club, THE Retail Merchants’ Association and the Rotary
club, and it is needless to say that he is a live-wire
in each.
Mr.
Funk was married to Miss Alice Montgomery, the ceremony being solemnized at San
Francisco; and Mrs. Funk also counts her friends by
the score. Mr. Funk is an Elk, and a
Republican; public-spirited and patriotic; and he was active in all the drives
during the World War. He is fond of
hunting and fishing; but this predilection has in no sense impaired his
reputation for veracity, and he is one of the few men whose word is always as
good as his bond.
Transcribed
by Priscilla Delventhal.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History
of Sacramento County, California With Biographical
Sketches, Page 990. Historic Record
Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 P. J. Delventhal.