Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-03-19
SOUTH AMBOY.
WANT FURMAN
NEXT MAYOR
Democrats Remember His Excel.
lent Run.fOr Surrogate Brief
Sketch Of His Career.

4 ExrSurrogate Leonard Furman has
/long been prominent business mar
in South Amboy and while he has fill
ed offices of public trust he has al
ways claimed his residence in the
home town in which he was born. OF
his official career there was never
shadow of wrong, nor a suspicion OF
evil and his reelection to the Office
of surrogate of Middlesex county for
the second term was unmistakable
proof of his ability, promptness ana
trustworthiness. a public office was
to him a sacred trust and was not
used for the purpose of personal gain
or self ACKNOWLEDGMENT Mr.. Furman
was born in South Amboy. n. j.. on
the twentieth day of March, 1851.
He received his primary course OF
education in the common schools OF
his native town. and the advanced
course in the higher school at Law
renceville, n. j. Mr. Furman is now
engaged in the clay business, which
he FIRST commenced in partnership
with his father in 1856. The busi-
ness was established in 1914 before
the subject of this sketch was born.
In 1888 Noah Furman, his father,
and senior member of the firm, was
called to his final rest. The business
which consists in. the mining OF clay.
(which is used in the manufacture OF
stone ware, sewer pipes and terra
Gotta productions, has been carried
on by Mr.. Furman as sole owner
since the death OF his father, until
the present time moulding sand, for
the supplying of the numerous foun-
dries in the eastern part of the Unit
ed States, form quite an important
factor in his business.
The large potteries in this part of
the state and county constitute an eX-
cellent market for the clay that is so
extensively mined from the large and
extensive clay pits owned by Mr.. Fur
man. So extensive has his business
become that in some instances he has
been compelled to lay railways from
his pits to tide water to facilitate the
shipment of his products. His busi-
ness has grown to large proportions
and Mr.. Furman, through his activi-
ty and shrewdness, bids fair to be-
come one of the notables of South
Amboy financially. He employs a
large force of workmen in the mining
of his clay, thereby becoming a bene-
factor to many in the community in
which he lives. His products are not
confined strictly to the United States,
bnt many shipments nre made to the
British provinces. Mr.. Furman has
been quite active in the public affairs
in his county, being twice elected as
tax collector in the township of South
Ambov and for a like period he
served as a township committeeman
in his native place. Practically, he
is democrat and while MiddleseX
county is considered missionary
field, politically, Mr.. Furman carried
the flag of democracy to final victory
in .92 and '97 as far as the surrogate
of the county was concerned. His
iucumbency covered a period of ten
years. In 1902 he retired from Office
and from politics and since that time
be has turned his attention wholly to
his business, which is eminently sue
cessful Whether he can again be
persuaded to enter the political arena
to lead his party on to victory, we
know not, but the boom is setting in
for his nomination for the next may
or of South Amboy.