Cassius Emerson Furman and Bessie Rankin

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Husband Cassius Emerson Furman ¹

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           Born: 30 Jul 1880 - Strattanville, Clarion Twp, Clarion Co, PA 1
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         Father: Alonzo Baldwin Furman (1836-      ) 2
         Mother: Ann Catherine Lowry (1839-1906) 1

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Wife Bessie Rankin ¹

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         Father: Craig Rankin (      -      ) 1
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Children

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1 F Louise Furman ¹

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2 F Helen Furman ¹

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General Notes: Husband - Cassius Emerson Furman

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He was reared at his birthplace, where he had the best public school advantages available up to the age of fourteen years. At that time he began to work in the lumber woods, being so employed for the next six years, after which for five years he was engaged on the survey in Clarion and Jefferson counties. It was subsequent to this experience that he turned to carpentry, which he followed first at Strattonville and Clarion, remaining four years at the latter point, until his removal to Franklin. He arrived there June 6, 1905, and first found employment with William Sutton, later working for Leonard McIntire and L. Craig, and by 1911 he felt that he had gained the experience necessary to start in business for himself. Mr. Furman soon demonstrated that he had a gift for appropriate architecture as well as the mechanical skill necessary to produce structures that would meet all the requirements demanded and at the same time come up to distinctive standards of value in relation to their surroundings. His work had the highly desirable qualities of durability and adaptability, but to attain these he did not find it necessary to sacrifice appearances, and he showed steady development in good taste, harmony and fitness being apparent in every detail. He kept from eighteen to twenty men steadily employed. Among the notable residences of his construction thereabouts were the summer homes of R. G. Lamberton and Daniel Grimm, as well as many fine dwellings in Franklin.

1 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 864.

2 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 863.