Descendants of Charles Woolverton



Alonzo Baldwin (Lon) Furman and Anna Wonsettler


Husband Alonzo Baldwin (Lon) Furman 1 

           Born: 4 Aug 1836 - Strattanville, Clarion County, PA
       Baptized: 
           Died: 10 Feb 1926 - Strattanville, Clarion County, PA
         Buried:  - Centennial Cemetery, Strattanville, Clarion County, PA
Find A Grave ID: 29299628


         Father: Nathan Howe Furman {FGID: 22925429} 1
         Mother: Isabella L. Longwill 1


       Marriage: Sep 1906

   Other Spouse: Catherine Ann Lowry {FGID: 29299573} 1 - 22 Mar 1859 - Strattanville, Clarion County, PA

Wife Anna Wonsettler 

           Born: 26 Mar 1856 - Columbiana County, OH
       Baptized: 
           Died: 
         Buried:

Children
General Notes: Husband - Alonzo Baldwin (Lon) Furman

FTM BIRT: RIN MH:IF8453

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Furman-4

Biography

Biography: Alonzo was the firstborn child of Nathan and Isabel (Longwell) Furman. He was born in Strattanville in 1836. He married Catherine Lowry on her twentieth birthday, 3-22-1839. She died in 1906, age 67. She was the daughter of John & Eleanor (Clough) Lowry.

Alonzo (nicknamed "Lon") was described in a history of Strattanville published in 1928 at a Centennial Celebration as follows: "Alonzo B. Furman, --was the last of the tenth generation of Furmans in America. "Lon" Furman loved music and many of the older here today are recalling having attended "singin' school" of which he was the teacher at times. By men all over the country he is ac- credited as having been a good mechanic, almost a genius, which perhaps accounted some for his few words and short answers. His little old blacksmiths shop was the birthplace of the Oliver Chilled Plow, which he invented sometime prior to the 1870's. He took out the patent through Munn and Co., Patent Office, Wall Street New York, but later sold out to the J.W.Oliver Company for a meager sum, thussecuring enough money to attend the Centennial in Phila- delphia in 1876. Mr. Furman is also given much credit for invent- ing what we know as the Stillson wrench, but nothing definite can be said of this as he sold his model to a stranger for one dollar, without having secured a patent right."

Lon and his wife had eight children. Lon married a widow from Fair- field township, Columbiana County, Ohio in September of 1906. Her name was Anna Wonsettler and they had no children themselves though Anna had children from her first marriage.

A book about the history of the Allegheny Valley has the following write-up: "He was brought up on a farm and educated at Strattanville, and at public school at Clarion, to which place his father had removed in 1847. Since 1859 he has resided at Strattanville, and he is a black- smith and machinist. Since 1856, when he cast his first presidential vote for John C. Fremont, he has always been a Republican. At Strat- tanville he has served on the council, and he has been for a number of years a member of the school board. From 1858 he has been a member of the Baptist church at Strattanville, and he helped in getting out the lumber to build the First Baptist Church."

Farmer, blacksmith, inventor.

Burial: Centennial Cemetery Strattanville Clarion County Pennsylvania

Sources

Biography of Nathan Howe Furman and his wife Isabella Longwell Furman, daughter of William and Rachel Walker Longwell. Source: "Genealogical and personal history of the Allegheny Valley ...", Volume 1, John Woolf Jordan, p 277.

1850 - 1920 US Federal Censuses

U.S., Civil War Draft Registrations Records, 1863-1865 Record

Pennsylvania, Death Certificates, 1906-1963

Clarion County Historical Society Library: Deaths Recorded 1925 - 1932.

Find A Grave Memorial# 29299628

https://old.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=29299628

Birth: Aug. 4, 1836
Death: Feb. 11, 1926
Strattanville
Clarion County
Pennsylvania, USA


Family links:
Spouse:
Anne Catherine Lowry Furman (1838 - 1906)*

Children:
Ella Belle Furman Allshouse (1856 - 1892)*
Samuel K. Furman (1862 - 1918)*
Cassius Emerson Furman (1880 - 1963)*

*Calculated relationship

Burial:
Centennial Cemetery
Strattanville
Clarion County
Pennsylvania, USA

Created by: Kristin Carnahan
Record added: Aug 25, 2008
Find A Grave Memorial# 29299628

Research Notes: Husband - Alonzo Baldwin (Lon) Furman


=== Biography ===
Biography: Alonzo was the firstborn child of Nathan and Isabel (Longwell) Furman.
He was born in Strattanville in 1836. He married Catherine Lowry on
her twentieth birthday, 3-22-1839. She died in 1906, age 67. She was
the daughter of John & Eleanor (Clough) Lowry.

Alonzo (nicknamed "Lon") was described in a history of Strattanville
published in 1928 at a Centennial Celebration as follows:
"Alonzo B. Furman, --was the last of the tenth generation of Furmans
in America. "Lon" Furman loved music and many of the older here
today are recalling having attended "singin' school" of which he
was the teacher at times. By men all over the country he is ac-
credited as having been a good mechanic, almost a genius, which
perhaps accounted some for his few words and short answers. His
little old blacksmiths shop was the birthplace of the Oliver
Chilled Plow, which he invented sometime prior to the 1870's. Hetook out the patent through Munn and Co., Patent Office, Wall Street New York, but later sold out to the J.W.Oliver Company for a meager
sum, thussecuring enough money to attend the Centennial in Phila-
delphia in 1876. Mr. Furman is also given much credit for invent-
ing what we know as the Stillson wrench, but nothing definite canbe said of this as he sold his model to a stranger for one dollar, without having secured a patent right."

Lon and his wife had eight children. Lon married a widow from Fair-
field township, Columbiana County, Ohio in September of 1906. Her
name was Anna Wonsettler and they had no children themselves though
Anna had children from her first marriage.

A book about the history of the Allegheny Valley has the following
write-up:
"He was brought up on a farm and educated at Strattanville, and at
public school at Clarion, to which place his father had removed in
1847. Since 1859 he has resided at Strattanville, and he is a black-
smith and machinist. Since 1856, when he cast his first presidential
vote for John C. Fremont, he has always been a Republican. At Strat-tanville he has served on the council, and he has been for a number of years a member of the school board. From 1858 he has been a member of
the Baptist church at Strattanville, and he helped in getting out the
lumber to build the First Baptist Church."

Farmer, blacksmith, inventor.

Burial:
Centennial Cemetery
Strattanville
Clarion County
Pennsylvania


=== Sources ===
Biography of Nathan Howe Furman and his wife Isabella Longwell Furman, daughter of William and Rachel Walker Longwell. Source: "Genealogical and personal history of the Allegheny Valley ...", Volume 1, John Woolf Jordan, p 277.

1850 - 1920 US Federal Censuses

U.S., Civil War Draft Registrations Records, 1863-1865 Record

Pennsylvania, Death Certificates, 1906-1963
Clarion County Historical Society Library: Deaths Recorded 1925 - 1932.

Find A Grave Memorial# 29299628

General Notes: Wife - Anna Wonsettler

FTM BIRT: RIN MH:IF8485

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Wonsettler-1

Note

Note: Unusual items: Widow that married Alonzo Furman, they had no children.

Notes: Marriage

FTM
MARR: RIN MH:FF2377

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Furman-4
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Wonsettler-1

Sources

1. WikiTree Wolverton Family.

Sources

1 WikiTree Wolverton Family.

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