Background
Furber, Edward Parker was born on January 2, 1898 in Newton, Massachusetts, United States. Son of George Pope and Laura Mabel (Parker) Furber.
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Edward Parker Furber
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AB cum laude, Harvard University, 1918. Bachelor of Laws, Harvard University, 1922.
Career
Teacher, Mill Brook School, Concord, Massachusetts, 1918-1919; assistant in government, Harvard University, 1919-1922; teacher, Camp Aloha Summer School, Holderness, N.H., 1919-1922; with, Warner Stackpole & Bradlee, Boston, 1922-1924; with, Charles P. Howard, Boston, 1924-1926; private practice, Boston, 1926-1942; chief justice, Trust Territory Pacific Islands, from 1948; associate attorney, Watertown (Massachusetts) Savings Bank, 1929-1942; trustee, Watertown (Massachusetts) Savings Bank, 1937-1949. Trustee New England Gas & Electric Association, 1937-1946, also director principal subsidiaries, 1940-1942.
Achievements
Membership
Adviser United States delegation United Nations Trusteeship Council, 1949-1951. Fund chairman forWatertown, Greater Boston Community Fund, 1938-1940, area vice chairman charge Watertown, Waltham, Lexington and Belmont, 1941. Chairman selectmen, Watertown, 1930-1932, moderator, 1935-1937.
Served from Lieutenant (senior grade) tocomdr. United States Naval Reserve, 1942-1951. Member American Bar Association, American Unitarian Association (director), Unitarian Laymen's League United States and Canada (president), Masons, Shriners.
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Connections
Married Ruth Haynes, January 12, 1918. Children: Barbara (Mistress Robert Hovey Clapp), George Pope.
