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river alone in a canoe. He was engaged in lect- uring in 1895. In 1896 he joined the insurgent army in Cuba, fought under Garcia and Gomez, and vva.s given command of the artillery of the insurgents. He served eighteen months, was wounded and captured by the Spanish and sent back to the United States on parole. At the outbreak of the war with Spain in 1898 he was commissioned colonel of the 20tli Kansas volun- teers by Governor Leedy, and with his regiment went to the Pliilippines where he took part in the battles against Aguinaldo, leader of the Philippine insurgents. He was promoted to the rank of brigadier -general of the United States volunteers. May 3, 1898, for bravery on the battlefield in various engagements. He returned with his regiment to Kansas where they were mustered out of the volunteer service, Oct. 28, 1899. General Funston having accepted the commission of brigadier-general in the regular army on Ins arrival at San Franci.sco, Oct. 22, 1899, he reported for duty in the Pliilippines, and on Maroli 23, 1901, he captured Aguinaldo.

FURCHES, David Moffatt, jurist, was born in Davie county, N.C., April 21, 1832; son of Stephen Lewis and Mary (Howell) Furches; and grandson of Tobias and Susan (Horn) Furches, and of Joseph and Jane (Creson) Howell. His ancestors, who spelled the name Fourshe, were ^gs^~^ Huguenots who came

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son and practised at nic.nksMlle, N.C. He II ' ii, ij'' w as solicitor of Davie

•Ali\lllWV //I lil"'"'^ county, 1858-65, a /HU^^^^^ member of the provi- sional state constitu- tional convention held in Raleigh, N.C., in 1865, and provisional solicitor of the 8th judicial district during the reconstruction period. He removed to Statesville in 1866; was the defeated Republican candidate for representative in the 43d congress, 1872; was appointed judge of the 10th judicial district by Governor Brogden to fill the unexpired term of Judge Mitchell, resigned, serving, 1875-78; and practised law in States- ville, 1878-94. He was the nominee and defeated Republican candidate for representative in the 47th congress in 1880; forjudge of the superior court for his district in 1886; for judge of the supreme court in 1888, and for governor of North Carolina in 1893. He was elected associate jus-

tice of the supreme court of the state in 1894 on the fusion ticket, for a term of eight years, taking his seat on the supreme bench, January, 1895. He was twice married; first in 1859 to Eliza Bingham of Davie, who died in 1891; and in 1893 he was married to Lula Corpeuing of Ire- dell county.

FURMAN, James Clement, educator, was born in Charleston, S.C, Dec. 5, 1809; son of the Rev. Richard Furman, D.D. (1755-1825), a Rev- olutionary patriot of Virginia, for whose appre- hension Lord Cornwallis offered a reward; and pastor of the 1st Baptist church of Charleston, S.C, 1787-1824. James Clement was educated at the College of Charleston, leaving before the close of his senior year on account of ill health. He was pastor of Baptist churches at Camden and Fairfield, 1828-34; at Society Hill, 1834-43; was professor of mental and moral philosophy, rhetoric and logic in Furman theological institu- tion, 1843-50; chairman of the faculty of Furman university, Greenville, S.C, an enlargement of the seminary, 1850-81; and professor of ethics and metaphysics, 1881-91. He was editor of the Baptist Courier and moderator of the Baptist state convention for several years. He died at Greenville, S.C, March 3, 1891.

FURNAS, Robert Wilkinson, governor of Nebraska, was born in Miami county, Ohio, May 5, 1824; son of William and Martlia (Jenkins) Furnas; grandson of Thomas W, and Mary (Scott) Furnas; and a descendant of Jolm Furnas of Standing Stone, Cmnberland, England. He was apprenticed to a printer in 1842 and became a practical printer and editor. He removed to Ne- braska in 1855 and was colonel of the 2d Nebraska cavalry in the civil war, 1861-65. He was elected, as a Republican, governor of Nebraska in 1873, serving, 1873-75. He was a member of "^^ \ j\ the board of regents yj /jl nitp^P of the University of J t>tW% mirT4/T^^'-*^^ Nebraska, 1873-74; U.S. commissioner to the expositions at Pliiladelphia, 1876, New Orleans, 1884, and Chicago, 1893; and president of the Nebraska state board of agriculture, the State historical society, the Territorial pioneers, the Soldiers' union, and the Nebraska state horticult- ural society. On retiring to private life in 1890 he engaged in farming and tree culture. He is the author of: The Agrieidture of Nebraska (13 vols., 1886-98); anA Arbor Day.

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