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William Henry Furness

(Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896)

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Title: The underground rail road. A record of facts, authentic narratives, letters, &c., narrating the hardships, hairbreadth escapes and death struggles of the slaves in their efforts for freedom
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Still, William, 1821-1902
Subjects: Underground Railroad Fugitive slaves -- United States Antislavery movements -- United States
Publisher: Philadelphia, Porter & Coates
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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William Henry Furness (April 20, 1802 – January 30, 1896) was an American clergyman, theologian, Transcendentalist, abolitionist, and reformer. (From Wikipedia)

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Exercises at the meeting of the First Congregational Unitarian society, January 12, 1875 : together with the discourse delivered by Rev. W. H. Furness, Sunday, Jan. 10, 1875, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of his ordination, January 12, 1825. (Sherman & Co., 1875), by First Congregational Society of Unitarian Christians in the City of Philadelphia and William Henry Furness (page images at HathiTrust)
A sermon delivered at the ordination of the Rev. William Henry Furness, as pastor of the First Congregational Unitarian Church in Philadelphia, January 12, 1825 (Printed and published by Abraham Small, 1825), by Henry Ware, Ezra S. Gannett, Aaron Bancroft, and First Congregational Society of Unitarian Christians in the City of Philadelphia (page images at HathiTrust)
In memory of William Henry Furness, D.D. : a sermon preached to the First Church in Roxbury, Boston, February 2, 1896 (Boston : Printed by S.J. Parkhill & Co., 1896., 1896), by James De Normandie and First Religious Society in Roxbury (page images at HathiTrust)
Exercises at the meeting of the First Congregational Unitarian Society, January 12, 1875 : together with the discourse delivered by Rev. W.H. Furness, D.D., Sunday, Jan. 10, 1875, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of his ordination, January 12, 1825. (Philadelphia : Sherman & Co., Printers, 1875., 1875), by Penn.) First Congregational Unitarian Church (Philadelphia, William Henry Furness, and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)

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Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: The Blessings of Abolition: A Discourse Delivered in the First Congregational Unitarian Church, Sunday, July 1, 1860 (Philadelphia: C. Sherman and Son, 1860) (page images at Harvard)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896, contrib.: The Kidnapped and the Ransomed: Being the Personal Recollections of Peter Still and His Wife "Vina," after Forty Years of Slavery (Syracuse: William T. Hamilton, 1856), by Kate E. R. Pickard, also contrib. by Samuel J. May (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: Put Up Thy Sword: A Discourse Delivered Before Theodore Parker's Society, at the Music Hall, Boston, Sunday, March 11, 1860 (Boston: R. F. Wallcut, 1860) (multiple formats at Google)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896, trans.: Schiller's Song of the Bell (Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1887), by Friedrich Schiller, illust. by Sándor Liezen-Mayer and Edmund H. Garrett (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: The Spirit of the Pilgrims: An Oration Delivered Before the Society of the Sons of New England of Philadelphia, December 22d, 1846, in Commemoration of the Landing of the Pilgrims CCXXVI Years Ago (Philadelphia: J. C. Clark, 1846)
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Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896, trans.: The Voice in Speaking (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1875), by Emma Seiler (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)

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Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: An address delivered before a meeting of the members and friends of the Pennsylvania anti-slavery society (Merrihew & Thompson, printers, 1850), also by Pennsylvania society for promoting the abolition of slavery (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: The character of Jesus portrayed. A Biblical essay, with an appendix. (Little, Brown, and company, 1866), also by Daniel Schenkel (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: Christian duty. Three discourses delivered in the First Congregational Unitarian church of Philadelphia May 28th, June 4th and June 11th, 1854 (Merrihew & Thompson's Steam Power Press, 1854), also by YA Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: A discourse for the time : delivered January 4, 1852 in the First Congregational Unitarian Church (C. Sherman, 1852) (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: A Discourse for the Time, delivered January 4, 1852 in the First Congregational Unitarian Church (Gutenberg ebook)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: A discourse, preached at the dedication of the First Congregational Unitarian church, Philadelphia, November 5, 1828. (The First Congregational Unitarian church, 1828) (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: Discourses (G. Collins, 1855) (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: Domestic worship (J. Kay & Brother ;, 1840) (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: Domestic worship (Walker, Wise, 1861) (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: Domestic worship (J. Kay & Brother, 1842), also by James Munroe and Company and Jun. & Brother James Kay (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: Domestic worship (W. Crosby and H.P. Nichols, 1850) (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: Dr. Johann Franz Arnold's Praktische grammatik der englischen sprache. (J. Weik, 1849), also by Johann Franz Arnold (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: Dr. Johann Franz Arnold's Praktische Grammatik der Englischen Sprache : Nebst vielen Gesprächen und Uebungen zum Uebersetzen aus dem Deutschen in's Englische und aus dem Englischen in's Deutsche, so wie einem Anhange, enthaltend eine gründliche Anweisung in der einfachen Englischen Buchführung für Handwerker und Detaillisten und einer Menge von Geschäfts-Formularen, als: Rechnungen, Quittungen, Wechsel, etc., etc. (Verlag von John Weik, 1854), also by Johann Franz Arnold (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: England and America : a discourse delivered by W.H. Furness, minister of the First Congregational Unitarian Church, Sunday, December 22, 1861. (C. Sherman & Son, 1862) (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: Exercises at the meeting of the First Congregational Unitarian society, January 12, 1875 : together with the discourse delivered by Rev. W. H. Furness, Sunday, Jan. 10, 1875, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of his ordination, January 12, 1825. (Sherman & Co., 1875), also by First Congregational Society of Unitarian Christians in the City of Philadelphia (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: Exercises at the meeting of the First Congregational Unitarian Society, January 12, 1875 : together with the discourse delivered by Rev. W.H. Furness, D.D., Sunday, Jan. 10, 1875, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of his ordination, January 12, 1825. (Philadelphia : Sherman & Co., Printers, 1875., 1875), also by Penn.) First Congregational Unitarian Church (Philadelphia and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: The faith of Jesus. (Priv. print., 1887) (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: Gems of German verse. (W.P. Hazard, 1860) (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: Gems of German verse (Willis P. Hazard, 1851), also by Moritz Retzsch (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: Gospels, historical. (Unitarian Book Room Assoc., 1896) (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: The Gospels, historical address delivered at the Unitarian Conference in Washington D.C., October, 1895 : and other sermons (s.n.], 1895) (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: A history of Jesus (W. Crosby and H. P. Nichols, 1850) (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: A history of Jesus (Crosby, Nichols ;, 1853) (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: A history of Jesus (Boston : Crosby, Nichols, 1853., 1853) (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: Jesus (J. B. Lippincott & co., 1871) (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: Jesus and His biographers : or, the remarks on the four Gospels, revised with copious additions (Carey, Lea and Blanchard, 1838) (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: Jesus and the gospels ([s.l.], 1872) (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: Jesus, the heart of Christianity (J.B. Lippincott, 1882) (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: Jesus, the heart of Christianity. (Philadelphia : Press of J.B. Lippincott, 1882., 1882), also by Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: Julius, and other tales from the German. (Parry & McMillan, 1856), also by Heinrich Zschokke and Rodolphe Töpffer (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: The kidnapped and the ransomed (Negro publication society of America, inc., 1941), also by Kate E. R. Pickard and Negro Publication Society of America (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: The kidnapped and the ransomed. Being the personal recollections of Peter Still and his wife "Vina," after forty years of slavery. (W.T. Hamilton;, 1856), also by Kate E. R. Pickard (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: The kidnapped and the ransomed. Being the personal recollections of Peter Still and his wife "Vina," after forty years of slavery. (W. T. Hamilton;, 1856), also by Kate E. R. Pickard (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: Life in the Luchu Islands (Japan) ([n.p., 1899) (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: The life of Seth Conkling (E. Conkling, 1892), also by Kate E. R. Pickard (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: The life of Seth Conkling. (Priv. print., 1892), also by Kate E. R. Pickard (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: The mirror of nature; a book of instruction and entertainment. (Thomas, Cowperthwait, 1849), also by Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: The moving power. A discourse delivered in the First Congregational Unitarian church in Philadelphia, Sunday morning, Feb. 9, 1851, after the occurrence of a fugitive slave case. (Merrihew and Thompson, Printers, 1851) (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: Our American institutions. A Thanksgiving discourse delivered in the First Congregational Unitarian church in Philadelphia, August 6th, 1863 (T.B. Pugh, 1863) (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: Our benevolent institutions : a discourse occasioned by the death of Julius R. Friedlander, Principal of the Pennsylvania Institution for the Blind, and delivered, Sunday, March 24, 1839 (s.n.], 1839) (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: Our duty as conservatives : a discourse delivered in the First Congregational Unitarian Church, Sunday November 25, 1860 : occasioned by the threatened secession of some of the southern states. (Sherman, 1860) (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: Pastoral offices. (Houghton, 1893) (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: The power of spirit manifest in Jesus of Nazarath (J. B. Lippincott & co., 1877), also by Ernest Renan (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: Praktische Grammatik der Englischen Sprache (Verlag von John Weik, 1849), also by Johann Franz Arnold (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: Put up thy sword. A discourse delivered before Theodore Parker's Society, at the Music Hall, Boston, Sunday, March 11, 1860 (R.F. Wallcut, 1860) (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: Recollections of seventy years : a discourse delivered in the First Unitarian Church in Philadelphia (s.n., 1895) (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: Records of a lifelong friendship, 1807-1882 (Houghton Mifflin, 1910), also by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Bruce Rogers, Horace Howard Furness, and Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: Remarks on Renan's Life of Jesus ([s.n.], 1865) (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: Remarks on the four Gospels (Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1836) (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: Remarks on the four gospels. (C. Fox, 1837) (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: The right of property in man; a discourse delivered in the First Congregational Unitarian Church (C. Sherman & Sons, 1859) (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: Schiller's Song of the bell (Ig. Kohler, no. 202 North Fourth Street, 1876), also by Friedrich Schiller (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: A sermon, delivered in the First Congregational Unitarian Church, on the evening of the Lord's day, January 1, 1832 (J. Harding, 1832), also by Pa.) First Unitarian Church (Philadelphia (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: A sermon, delivered May 14, 1841 (Printed by J. C. Clark, 1841) (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: A sermon occasioned by the destruction of Pennsylvania hall, and delivered the Lord's day following, May 20, 1838, in the First Congregational Unitarian church (Printed by J. C. Clark, 1838) (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: Song of the bell (C. Sherman, 1849), also by Friedrich Schiller (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: The Song of the Bell (W.P. Hazard, 1851), also by Friedrich Schiller and Frederic Henry Hedge (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: Song of the bell. (Stroefer & Kirchner, 1874), also by Friedrich Schiller, A. Mueller, and C. Jaeger (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: The song of the bell (T. Stroefer;, 1879), also by Friedrich Schiller, Rudolf Seitz, Sándor Liezen-Mayer, and Alexander Liezen-Mayor (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: The story of the resurrection of Christ told once more. (Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott & co., 1885., 1885) (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: The story of the resurrection of Christ told once more : with remarks upon the character of Christ and the historical claims of the four gospels (Houghton, Mifflin and Co. ;, 1890) (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: Thoughts on the life and character of Jesus of Nazareth, by W. H. Furness ... (Phillips, Sampson & company, 1859), also by Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: Two discourses delivered in the First Congregational Unitarian church, on the Sundays, January 26 and February 2, 1845 (J. Crissy, 1845) (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: The unconscious truth of the four Gospels (J. P. Lippincott & Co., 1868) (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: The veil partly lifted and Jesus becoming visible (Ticknor and Fields, 1864) (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: Verses (Houghton, Mifflin, 1886) (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: Verses (Houghton, Mifflin, 1892) (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: The voice in singing (J.B. Lippincott & co., 1900), also by Emma Seiler (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: The voice in singing (J. B. Lippincott, 1879), also by Emma Seiler (page images at HathiTrust)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896, trans.: The Voice in Singing, by Emma Seiler (Gutenberg ebook)
Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896: The voice is speaking (J. B. Lippincott & co., 1875), also by Emma Seiler (page images at HathiTrust)

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