January 26, 1891 - Cherry Run, WV

RJF's brother and future business partner, Elmer Newton Funkhouser is also born.(Elmer would study for four years at the Shenandoah Institute, later getting his A.B. degree at Otterbein College, Westerville, Ohio).

On January 1st, 1916 Newton Elmer would marry Nellie E. Spielman. Their children would be Elmer Newton, Richard Nelson, and Robert Brane.

Learning perseverance from a cow