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Robert Wilkinson Furnas (May 5 1824 – June 1 1905) was the second Governor of Nebraska . Furnas was born near Troy Ohio and attended public school. He worked as a farmer printer tinsmith insurance salesman and postmaster. He married Mary Elizabeth McComas on October 29 1845 who died in 1897; and his second was Susannah Emswiler Jameson. He had eight children.