Arville Funk

Who was Arville Funk?

Arville L. Funk was a lawyer, teacher, author, and an Indiana historian. Born in Harrison County, Indiana, Funk attended public school in Corydon, and studied law in New Albany. He opened a law practice in Corydon where he lived most of his life.

A member of the Indiana Historical Society and the Harrison County Indiana Historical and Genealogical Society, Funk was most interested in Indiana's Civil War History. 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, Hoosiers in the Civil War A Sketchbook of Indiana History, Historical Almanac of Harrison County, Indiana, Squire Boone in Indiana, Revolutionary War Soldiers of Harrison County, Indiana, Revolutionary War Era in Indiana, The Battle of Corydon, Harrison County in the Indiana Sesquicentennial Year, The Morgan Raid in Indiana and Ohio, A Hoosier Regiment in Dixie: A History of the Thirty-Eighth Indiana Regiment, The Hoosier Scrapbook, and numerous others.