Bio of FURBER, Fred N. (b.1868), Hennepin Co., MN ========================================================================= USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is obtained from the contributor of the file. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written consent of the contributor, OR the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. If you have found this file through a source other than the MNArchives Table Of Contents you can find other Minnesota related Archives at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/mn/mnfiles.htm Please note the county and type of file at the top of this page to find the submitter information or other files for this county. FileFormat by Terri--MNArchives Made available to The USGenWeb Archives by: Laura Pruden Submitted: June 2003 ========================================================================= Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ======================================================== EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical ======================================================== FRED N. FURBER - Vol II, pg 418-421 Fred N. Furber is a successful practicing attorney of Minneapolis and throughout his career he has maintained the highest standards of professional ethics. He is one of Minnesota's native sons and was born in Detroit, there completing his high school course. He later entered the law school of the State University, from which he was graduated with the class of 1914, and at once took up the work of his profession, becoming con­nected with the legal department of the American Surety Company of Minneapolis. He later associated himself with the law firm of Kerr & Fowler and is now a member of the firm of Fowler, Carlson, Furber & Johnson, which has been accorded a liberal clientele. Mr. Furber engages in general practice but specializes to a considerable extent in insur­ance, tax and corporation law and his high professional standing is indicated in the fact that in 1920 he was appointed special United States attorney and was called to Washington. D. C., to serve in the office of the solicitor of internal revenue. Mr. Furber is an able lawyer, with a wide knowledge of the principles of jurisprudence and his care­ful analysis enables him correctly to apply his legal learning to the points at issue. Mr. Furber is a veteran of the World war, his term of service covering two years and four months. He entered the Officers Training Camp at Fort Snelling, where he was commissioned a first lieutenant of Field Artillery, and was assigned to the Three Hundred and Thirty-seventh Field Artillery, being transferred to Camp Dodge. He volunteered as an aerial observer and went through the military aerial observation and aerial gunnery schools, at Post Field, Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and Selfridge Field at Mount Clemens, Michigan. In August, 1918, he was sent to France and served with the Eighty-fifth and One Hundred and Sixty-eighth Aero Squadrons in the Argonne. After the signing of the armistice he was with the Army of Occupation at Sinzig, Germany, and in the summer of 1919 served as an official with the allied games in Paris, France. In August, 1919, he returned to the United States and was discharged at Camp Dodge, on the 8th of September of that year. He is a member of the American Legion and of the Military Order of the Great War, an officers' organization. On the 14th of May, 1920, Mr. Furber was united in marriage to Miss Dorothy Morse of Detroit, Minnesota, and they have a large circle of friends in the city. Mr. Furber is a Mason and a member of the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, the Interlachen Country Club and the Minneapolis Athletic Club. He also belongs to the American Bar Association and the Minnesota and Hennepin County Bar associations. He is an alert and enterprising young man, who has gained an enviable reputation in a profession which calls for a high order of ability and requires close application, good judgment and a constantly widening comprehension of the relations and responsibilities which go to make up civilized society.