Arville L. Funk was a lawyer, teacher, author, and a preeminent Indiana

Indiana

Indiana is a US state, admitted to the United States as the 19th on December 11, 1816. It is located in the Midwestern United States and Great Lakes Region. With 6,483,802 residents, the state is ranked 15th in population and 16th in population density. Indiana is ranked 38th in land area and is...

 historian. Born in Harrison County, Indiana

Harrison County, Indiana

Harrison County is a county located in the far southern part of the U.S. state of Indiana along the Ohio River. It is divided into twelve townships, and the county seat is Corydon, the former capital of Indiana. The county is part of the larger Louisville/Jefferson County, KY–IN Metropolitan...

, Funk attended public school in Corydon

Corydon, Indiana

Corydon is a town in Harrison Township, Harrison County, Indiana, United States, founded in 1808, and is known as Indiana's First State Capital. After Vincennes, Corydon was the second capital of the Indiana Territory from May 1, 1813, until December 11, 1816. After statehood, the town was the...

, and studied law in New Albany

New Albany, Indiana

New Albany is a city in Floyd County, Indiana, United States, situated along the Ohio River opposite Louisville, Kentucky. In 1900, 20,628 people lived in New Albany; in 1910, 20,629; in 1920, 22,992; and in 1940, 25,414. The population was 36,372 at the 2010 census. The city is the county seat of...

. He opened a law practice in Corydon where he lived most of his life.

A member of the Indiana Historical Society

Indiana Historical Society

The Indiana Historical Society is one of the United States' oldest and largest historical societies and describes itself as "Indiana's Storyteller". Housed within the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center, it is located at 450 West Ohio St...

 and the Harrison County Indiana Historical and Genealogical Society, Funk was most interested interested in Indiana's Civil War History

Indiana in the American Civil War

Indiana, a state in the Midwestern United States, played an important role during the American Civil War. Despite significant anti-war activity in the state and southern Indiana's ancestral ties to the Southern United States, it did not secede from the Union...

. He authored several books about Indiana history and commonly wrote an abbreviated version of his larger works dedicated to Harrison County topics. His many books include Our historic Corydon (1966), Hoosiers in the Civil War (1967) A Sketchbook of Indiana History (1969), Historical Almanac of Harrison County, Indiana (1974), Squire Boone in Indiana (1974), Revolutionary War Soldiers of Harrison County, Indiana (1975), Revolutionary War Era in Indiana (1975), The Battle of Corydon (1976), Harrison County in the Indiana Sesquicentennial Year (1976), The Morgan Raid in Indiana and Ohio (1978), A Hoosier Regiment in Dixie: A History of the Thirty-Eighth Indiana Regiment (1978), The Hoosier Scrapbook (1981), and numerous others. He coauthored Indiana's Birthplace: A History of Harrison County, Indiana in 1966 and was a regular contributor the Indiana Magazine of History

Indiana Magazine of History

The Indiana Magazine of History is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on the history and changing culture of Indiana and the Midwest. It has been published for more than a century and is one of the oldest historical journals in the United States...

between 1950 and 1980. He was an advocate of county historical societies and oversaw the creation of historical societies in several Indiana counties. He died in 1990 and is buried in Corydon's Cedar Hill cemetery.

External links

• Arville L. Funk historical marker