BIO:  Dugan & Funk, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Newberry Township, Pg 151

DUGAN & FUNK, manufacturers and dealers in cigars, Goldsboro, Penn.  This firm is 
composed of Ross W. Dugan and John C. Funk, of Newberry Township, York Co., Penn.  
They both learned the trade of cigar-making with Jesse Funk, father of one of the 
firm, and worked at it as journeymen for a number of years.  They formed a 
partnership in 1878, and for some time did all the work themselves, but as the 
business increased they employed other labor until they had about eleven hands, 
manufacturing nearly half a million cigars in a year.  In addition to their own 
cigars they handle and sell a great many made by other manufacturers.  The senior 
member of the firm is a step-son of Jesse Funk, the father of the junior, under 
whom they learned their trade.  They are both married.  Mr. Dugan married Susan 
Berger, of Goldsboro, and has one child living, one having died.  Mr. Funk 
married Lillie K. Relder, of Steelton, and has one child.  Both gentlemen are 
members of the Church of God.  Neither of them takes any active part in politics.  
Mr. Dugan is the only child of Levi and Catharine (Wolf) Dugan, natives of York 
County, Penn., of Irish and German descent, respectively.  His father dying when 
he was but two years old, his mother was married to Jesse Funk, who had nine 
children.