Bess Furman

(1894-1969) born in Danbury, Red Willow County. Journalist, was White House correspondent for New York Times, developed lasting friendship with Eleanor Roosevelt while covering the First Lady as her principal Associated Press assignment in the 1930s, worked in the Office of War Information during World War II. Consult Notable American Women, The Modern Period: A Biographical Dictionary (Belnap Press, 1980) 256-257 and Nebraska History, Vol 74 (Summer 1993) 63-71 and American National Biography, Vol 9 (1999) 581-582.

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