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PAUL C. FUNK
An enterprising business man of
Stockton who runs an auto wrecking and supply house at 420 South Center Street
is Paul C. Funk, whose business is the largest of its kind in the valley; he
maintains his wrecking plant at 642 South Center Street. Since the organization of the business in
January 1917 he has sold more than 2,000 used automobiles, and he owns the
building, 100 x 150 feet, on South Center Street. He was born in Germany in 1878 and at three
years of age was brought to America, and at nine years of age his family
located in Santa Cruz, California, where Mr. Funk received his education in the
grammar school. At seventeen years of
age he began to work for the Santa Cruz Gas Company and after three years was
made superintendent of the plant, remaining in that position until 1909 when he
was sent by the same company to Tonopah, Nevada, to take charge of their plant
there; he then traveled on the road in gas construction work for V. A. Britton,
during which time he installed plants in Redding and Willows; then he removed
to Fresno and for two years worked for the Pacific Gas & Electric Company
and was next sent to San Francisco for the same company in the capacity of
assistant superintendent of distribution, remaining there for two years; then
he was returned to Fresno as superintendent of manufacture by the Pacific Gas
& Electric Company, where he remained until he located in Stockton in
1917. E. C. Funk and William Haffner,
his brother-in-law, are associated with Paul C. Funk in the business and
besides buying and selling automobiles, tractors and trucks are agents for the
Ohio 6,000-mile tire made in the Mansfield, Ohio plant, one of the largest
factories in the country.
The marriage of Mr. Funk united him
with Miss Frances Marshall, a native of Iowa; and one child, Willa, was born in
San Francisco. Mr. Funk is just in the
prime of his powers and years, and his usefulness in affairs and his excellence
of citizenship give him a broad and bright outlook for the future as his
history in the past is a record of successful achievement.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1312. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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