Gabriel Furman (January 23, 1800
Brooklyn
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,
Kings County, New York — November 11, 1854 Brooklyn) was an American lawyer, historian and politician from New York.
Life
He was the son of Judge
William Furman (1765–1852). From 1814 to 1816, he attended Columbia Academy, in
Bergen Square
Bergen Square, at the intersection of Bergen Avenue and Academy Street in Jersey City, is in the southwestern part of the much larger Journal Square district. A commercial residential area, it contains an eclectic array of architectural styl ...
.
In 1824, he publishe
''Notes Geographical and Historical, Relating to the Town of Brooklyn in Kings County on Long Island''(on-line version; 117 pages).
He was a justice of the Brooklyn Municipal Court from 1827 to 1830.
He was a member of the
New York State Senate (1st D.) from 1839 to 1842, sitting in the
62nd,
63rd,
64th and
65th New York State Legislature
The 65th New York State Legislature, consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, met from January 4 to September 7, 1842, during the fourth year of William H. Seward's governorship, in Albany.
Background
Under the ...
s.
In
November 1842 he ran on the Whig ticket for
Lieutenant Governor of New York, but was defeated by Democrat
Daniel S. Dickinson.
Furman never married, died at the
Brooklyn City Hospital, and was buried at the
Green-Wood Cemetery
Green-Wood Cemetery is a cemetery in the western portion of Brooklyn, New York City. The cemetery is located between South Slope/ Greenwood Heights, Park Slope, Windsor Terrace, Borough Park, Kensington, and Sunset Park, and lies several blo ...
in Brooklyn.
Assemblyman
Gabriel Furman (1756–1844) was his uncle.
Sources
''The New York Civil List''compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 132f and 141; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
''A History of the City of Brooklyn''by Henry R. Stiles (1869; Vol. II, pg. 41f)
''Two biographical sketches of Gabriel Furman''
External links
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1800 births
1854 deaths
New York (state) state senators
People from Brooklyn
New York (state) Whigs
19th-century American politicians
New York (state) state court judges
Burials at Green-Wood Cemetery
19th-century American judges