Excerpt - page 8: "... the Furnesses were direct descendents of Jacob Hurd, the famed eighteenth-century Boston silversmith. Frank's father, William Henry Furness, was born in 1802 and was ..."
Excerpt - page 104: "... more influenced, according to the architectural historian Henry-Russell Hitchcock, by FrankFurness, a Philadelphian for whom he briefly worked, creator of some ..."