T. Chalmers Furnas papers, 1894-1974 bulk [1894-1946]

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T. Chalmers Furnas papers, 1894-1974 bulk [1894-1946]

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/715446569

Collection contains personal papers, original poetry and prose manuscripts, memorabilia, publications, clippings, scrapbooks, and photographs from life of T. Chalmers Furnas, father of University of Buffalo Chancellor Clifford C. Furnas and Clifton Joseph Furness. Collection mostly assembled by Sparkle M. Furnas.

3.75 linear feet (2 cartons, 1 flat box)

SUNY at Buffalo, University at Buffalo

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SNAC Resource ID: 8084790

SUNY at Buffalo, University at Buffalo

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State university of New York at Buffalo

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Furnas, Sparkle Moore, 1901-1996

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Sparkle Velma Moore was born March 14th, 1901 daughter of Rosa B. Brunes Moore and William Allen Moore near Zionsville, Indiana. She attended Boone County Public Schools and graduated from Zionsville High School in 1919. She attended Purdue University off and on from 1919-1924, graduating with a B.S. degree. In between she taught high school home economics and general science in Colfax, Lebanon, and Waterloo High Schools in Indiana. From 1924-25 she taught home economics, English an...

Furnas family.

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Furnas, T. Chalmers, 1876-1934

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Thomas Chalmers Furnas was born in Sheridan, Indiana, near Indianapolis, on April 7, 1876 into a Quaker farming family who lived and worked a 160 acres farm. His mother, Eunice Furnas, was a Quaker minister in charge of social activities of the Western Yearly Quaker Conference. His father, Joseph Furnas, was a relative of Robert Furnas, founder of the Furnas Ice Cream Company. Chalmers had three siblings: a brother Walton C. Furnas, and two sisters, Annie M. Coyner, and Calista Fell...

Furness, Clifton Joseph, 1898-1946

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Furness earned his Harvard AM in 1928. From the description of A study of the development of interest in folk ballads in the eighteenth century / Clifton Joseph Furness. January 1929. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77075837 Editor and scholar of Walt Whitman's life and writings. From the description of Correspondence, 1940. (New York State Historical Documents). WorldCat record id: 155478873 Clifton Joseph Furness, was born in She...

Furnas, C. C. (Clifford Cook), 1900-1969

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C. C. (Clifford Cook) Furnas (1900-1969) was an educator and engineer. He served as the Assistant Secretary of the Department of Defense for Research and Development from 1955 to 1957. From the description of Furnas, C. C. (Clifford Cook), 1900-1969 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10582385 Chancellor, University of Buffalo, 1954-1962; chairman, Guided Missile Commission, Research and Development Board, 1952-1953; chairman, Department of Defense Adv...