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Furman, Gabriel

lawyer, state senator, was born Jan. 23, 1800, in Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1827 he was appointed a justice of the Brooklyn municipal court, which office he held for three years. He served as state senator in 1839-42. He published Notes, Geographical and Historical, relative to the Town of Brooklyn. He died Nov. 11, 1854, in Brooklyn, N. Y.

Furman, James Clement

educator, college president, was born Dec. 5, 1809, in Charleston, S. C. In 1843 he accepted a professorship in the Furman Theological institution. When the institution was expanded into Furman university at Greenville, S. C., he was made its president.

Furnass, R. W

governor. He was governor of Nebraska from 1873 to 1875.

FURNESS, MRS. HELEN KATE ROG- ERS, author, was born July 26, 1837, in Philadelphia, Pa. She was a Shakespearean scholar of Philadelphia who published A Concordance to the Poems of Shakespeare. She died Oct. 30, 1883.

Furness, Horace Howard

author, was born Nov. 2, 1833, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is a distinguished Shakespearean scholar of Philadelphia, widely known in the literary world for his scholarly and exhaustive variorum editions of King Lear, Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, and Midsummer Night's Dream.

Furness, William Henry

artist, was born May 21, 1828, in Philadelphia, Pa. He established himself in Philadelphia as a portrait-painter, but later removed to Boston, Mass., where he attained a high rank in his profession. He died March 4, 1867, in Cambridge, Mass.

Furst, Charles Siegfried

merchant, journalist, was born in May, 1850, in Germany. In 1873 he established a large mercantile house in Jersey City, N. J.; and in 1893 he became president of the Jersey City Daily Democrat association. He has been prominently identified with every public movement for the benefit and improvement of Jersey City.

Futhey, John Smith

lawyer, antiquarian, author, born Sept. 3, 1820, in Chester county, Pa. He was a lawyer and antiquarian of Eastern Pennsylvania; and the author of History of Chester County; and Historical Collections of Chester County. He died in 1888.