San Joaquin County Biographies


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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, 100x150 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, Cal., 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, Nev., 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.
 
History of San Joaquin County, California � Los Angeles, Historic Record Co., 
1923
p  1312        
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler.