Otto Funk

Otto Funk was a GermanAmerican fiddler who gained fame as the Walking Fiddler in the Guinness Book of World Records for playing his Hopf violin every step of the way as he walked from New York to San Francisco in 1929, a trip of 4,165 miles. See, e.g., Guinness Book of World Records, McWhirter, N. and McWhirter, R., Revised and enlarged new Bantam edition, Stirling Publishing Company . He was 61 years old at the time of his marathon walk. He stood five feet two inches tall, and weighed approximately 100 pounds.

Funks parents had migrated to America from West Prussia in the mid19th century, and were married in Pilot Knob, Missouri in 1859. Following the ravishing of their 80acre family farm by Confederate soldiers, they moved to St. Louis, Missouri, where Otto was born in 1868. In 1881, the family bought a 360acre farm in Montgomery County, Illinois, and relocated there.

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