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collaboration with Funk

  • Funk, Isaac Kauffman
    In Isaac Kauffman Funk

    …1877, with a former classmate, Adam Willis Wagnalls, he founded I.K. Funk & Company, afterward (from 1891) Funk & Wagnalls Company, in New York City. The firm became best known for A Standard Dictionary of the English Language (1st ed., 1893; subsequent editions entitled A New Standard Dictionary of the…

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