(1802-1896) was an American clergyman, theologian, reformer and abolitionist. Following the American Civil War, he raised funds for Black schools in the South, including Morehouse College. A graduate of the Theological Department of Harvard University, Furness became the Minister of the First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia at the age of 22. A close friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Furness presided over a period marked by the growth and increasing prosperity for First Church. A fiery abolitionist, Furness was a supporter of the rights of all segments of society, including African-Americans and Jews. He also lived to see the construction of the current church building in 1885 in the role of Minister Emeritus. Rev. Furness was the father of painter William Furness, Shakespearean scholar Horace Howard Furness, architect Frank Furness, and author and translator Annis Furness Lee.   Related Paintings of William Henry Furness :. | Portrait of younger woman | Mrs Hugh Hammersley | Composition VI | The Rooks Have Returned | Nativity |
Related Artists:
edouard Joseph Dantan
painted Un Coin du Salon en 1880
U.F. Beenfeldt
painted Margrethe Holck in 1777
Claude Marie Dubufe
painted Portrait de la marechale duchesse de Feltre in before 1852