page_title: Horace Howard Furness
section_title: Family life
hierarchical_section_title: Horace Howard Furness / Family life
caption_attribution_description: English: Hellen Kate Furness (1838–1883), wife of Howard Horace Furness. Photo displayed at the H.K. Furness Library since about 1916.
context_page_description: Horace Howard Furness was an American Shakespearean scholar of the 19th century.
context_section_description: In 1860 Furness married Helen Kate Rogers (1837–1883), heir to an ironmaking fortune and sister of University of Pennsylvania instructor Fairman Rogers. She compiled a concordance to Shakespeare's poems, published in 1874. They had four children: 
  Walter Rogers Furness (1861–February 7, 1914), an architect, who became a partner in the firm of his uncle, Frank Furness, in 1896. He built Furness Cottage at the Jekyll Island Club, Georgia, where his family vacationed each year from 1889 to 1895. He was permanently blinded in one eye after a ball hit him during a game of racquets in 1898. From then on his life became worse and worse, descending into raging alcoholism. His wife, Helen Key Bullitt, died at age 47 in January 1914, and he died a month later at age 53, following a heart attack.
  Horace Howard Furness Jr. (1865–1930), who continued his father's work on the New Variorum project. Author of a play, The Gloss of Youth : an imaginary episode in the lives of William Shakespeare and John Fletcher (1920).
  William Henry Furness III, (1866-1920), an explorer and ethnologist. One of the University of Pennsylvania medical students depicted in Thomas Eakins's painting The Agnew Clinic (1889). Undertook anthropological expeditions to the South Pacific with Hiram M. Hiller, Jr. and Alfred C. Harrison, Jr., and wrote books and articles about Borneo and Polynesia. Died unmarried.
  Caroline Augusta Furness (1873-1909), also an ethnologist, she married University of Pennsylvania instructor Horace Jayne, and died from a heart attack at age 35 in 1909. Their children were Kate Furness Jayne and Horace H. F. Jayne, an art historian and museum director.
  Horace and Kate Furness inherited her family's Philadelphia city house, at the SW corner of Locust Street & West Washington Square. Frank Furness altered the house in 1873, and designed the 1909 office building that replaced it. He also designed their country house, "Lindenshade" (c. 1873, demolished 1940) and its many expansions, including the 1903 fireproof brick library.
caption: Helen Kate Furness, (c. 1880)
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