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Funk & Wagnalls. Funk & Wagnalls was an American publisher known for its reference works, including A Standard Dictionary of the English Language (1st ed. 1893–5), and the Funk & Wagnalls Standard Encyclopedia (25 volumes, 1st ed. 1912). [1]
Funk & Wagnalls dictionaries, family of English-language dictionaries noted for their emphasis on ease of use and current usage. (Read H.L. Mencken’s 1926 Britannica essay on American English.) The first Funk & Wagnalls dictionary was A Standard Dictionary of the English Language (1893).
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But who were Funk and Wagnalls? Isaac Funk and Adam Wagnalls were Ohioans who met and became friends at Wittenberg College just before the Civil War. Both entered the Lutheran ministry, with Funk ending up in a parish in Brooklyn, and Wagnalls ministering in Missouri. Funk left the ministry to travel in the early 1870s, and then founded his own ...
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Adam Willis Wagnalls (September 24, 1843 – September 3, 1924) was an American publisher who was the co-founder of the Funk & Wagnalls Company established in 1877. The company became known for its reference works like the world famous Funk & Wagnalls Dictionary and an encyclopedia whose content became a part of the Encarta digital encyclopedia ...
