Funk & Wagnalls
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Funk & Wagnalls was an American publisher known for its reference works, including A Standard Dictionary of the English Language, and the Funk & Wagnalls Standard Encyclopedia.
Logo of Funk and Wagnalls from a 1922 edition of Hoyt's Cyclopedia of Quotations
Adam Willis Wagnalls
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Adam Willis Wagnalls was an American publisher. He was the co-founder of the Funk & Wagnalls Company in 1877.
Funk & Wagnalls
…later became Funk & Wagnalls Inc., then Funk & Wagnalls Corporation. Isaac Kaufmann Funk founded the business in 1875 as I.K. Funk & Company. In 1877, Adam Willis Wagnalls, one of Funk's classmates at Wittenberg College (now Wittenberg University), joined the firm as a partner and the name of the firm was changed to Funk…
Adam Willis Wagnalls
Wagnalls Memorial Library in Lithopolis, Ohio