Father: John Perkins Furness
Mother: Anne Frazier Neilson
- Attended Professor Tutwiler's Greene Springs School
1860 - A.B. degree, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS
Before Civil War - Attended lectures, Medical Department of the University of Louisiana,
New Orleans, LA, but did not graduate
08/30/1861 - Enlisted, Confederate Army, Hayneville, TN
08/31/1861 - Mustered into service as Pvt., Co K, 14th MS Infantry
01/25/1862 - Left at Russellville, KY, to attend the sick
03/14/1862 - Discharged as Pvt, Co K, 14th MS Infantry
06/15/1862 - Asst. Surgeon, Poindexter Hospital, Macon, Noxubee Co, MS
12/04/1862 - Appointed Asst. Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, to rank from 08/08/1862
01/20/1863 - Asst. Surgeon-in-charge,
1st Mississippi Hospital, Jackson, MS
04/04/1863 - Confirmed as Asst. Surgeon by the Confederate States Senate
05/01/1863 - Stationed, Jackson, MS
06/30/1863 - Stationed, Jackson, MS
02/01/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, Confederate General Hospital, Shelby Springs, AL
03/31/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, Confederate General Hospital, Shelby Springs, AL
06/11/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, 43rd MS Infantry, Army of Tennessee, in the field
08/00/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, 43rd MS Infantry, near Atlanta, GA
12/00/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, 43rd MS Infantry, Gen. John Adams Brigade,
Gen. W. W. Lorings Division
04/00/1865 - Paroled, Asst. Surgeon, 14th MS Infantry (consolidated), Greensboro, NC
1866 - M.D. degree, New Orleans School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA
1870,1871,1874 - Practiced medicine, Selma, Dallas Co, AL
12/00/1876 - Married, Elizabeth Matthews Dawson, Selma, Dallas Co, AL
1883,1886,1890,1900,1903 - Practiced medicine, Selma, Dallas Co, AL
- Grand Senior Life Councilor, Medical Assn. of the State of Alabama
- Member, American Medical Association
- Member [Alabama] State Board of Censors
12/03/1909 - Died in his home, Selma, Dallas Co, AL (buried: Live Oak Cemetery, Division 3)

Note: Dr. Furniss was survived by two sons, Dr. Dawson Furniss, who practiced medicine in New York at the time of his death and Dr. Dr. John Furniss, who practiced medicine with him in Selma, AL.

Carol "Dixie" Beard provided input to this biography including an obituary at:
Obituary of Dr. John Furniss (1909) Columbus Commercial, Columbus, MS, Dec. 5, 1909, p. 1, c. 2.

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
09/23/2011. Updated 12/21/2018.
Unpublished database.