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Community of Funk's Grove History
McLean County, Illinois

(Transcribed by: Teri Moncelle Colglazier)

About ten miles southwest of Bloomington, on US 66, lies Funks Grove, nucleus of the famous and extensive seed farms operated here by the Funk Brothers Seed Company. The land holdings of the company total 22,000 acres, most of which are devoted to seed experiments and developments and to livestock breeding. Seed from these acres is shipped to most corn-growing states in America and to many foreign countries. Funks Grove is the only community of Funks Grove Township, which in 1950 had a total population of 558. First settlers of the township were Isaac Funk and his brother Absalom, together with a close friend of the two, William Brock. All three arrived in the spring of 1824. In the fall of that same year came Isaac and Absalom Funk's brother-in-law, Robert Stubblefield. At a later period Isaac Funk was elected to the Illinois state legislature. [This is McLean County, Illinois by: John Drury, The Loree Co., Chicago, Illinois (1955)]

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