Photo courtesy of Special Collections and Archives, Furman University.

[RWCollins]: D.D., a very eminent Baptist minister and educator, b: 1809, d: 1891, who helped found the two institutions that grew out of the Furman Academy and Theological institution--Furman University, Greenville, SC and the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, KY. The original Academy was named for Richard Furman. james was five time vice-president of the Southern Baptist Convention, and seven times president of the South Carolina Baptist State Convention, was an active delegate in the South Carolina "Secession Convention" just before the Civil War, raised endowments for ministerial education, and was faculty chairman and president of Furman University. Twice married: first to Herriet E. Davis in 1833--they had 4 children but she died in 1849--and second to Mary Glenn Davis, her sister, in 1856; they had children, and she died in 1911.)

http://pages.prodigy.net/sungela/firmyn_john.htm: death date and place.

http://singletonfamily.org/cards/getperson.php?personID=I2005&tree=Singletons
He was a minister and teacher, and pastor at Society Hill, First Baptist Church in Charleston, and at Greenville. He succeeded his brother,Samuel, as Head of the Furman Instituton, and taught there for fifty years, thirty of which he was President of Furman University, founded by his father, Richard Furman.
Two wives and 11 children.

[From "A Family of Educators", McDonald Furman, published in Education, March 1897]:
James C. Furman, D.D., brother of Samuel, was the most distinguished of all the Furmans as an educator, being one of the leading members of that profession in the South. He was also a distinguished Baptist clergyman of South Carolina. Five times was a vice-president of the Southern Baptist Convention and seven times president of the South Carolina Baptist State Convention. He was also a religious editor. He was a member of the famous "Secession Convention" of South Carolina. For many years he was connected with Furman University and thirty years of that time he was presiding officer as chairman of the University faculty or as president. He died in 1891, being over eighty years old. In a long editorial on his death, a leading South Carolina newspaper said: "Age did not diminish his mental faculties and he was to the last a power in the pulpit, on the platform, through the press and in council. He was loved and honored as few men are. His memory will go down among those of the State's greatest men."

1850 US Census Slave Schedules (ancestry.com):
Slaveowner Jas C Furman, Fairfield County, South Carolina, 65 black slaves.

1860 US Census Slave Schedules (ancestry.com):
Slaveowner James Furman, Greenville County, South Carolina: 41 black slaves.

• Married: 30 Apr 1833 in South Carolina

1. Charles Manning FURMAN b: 1840
2. James Franklin FURMAN b: 24 Jul 1842 in Society Hill, Darlington Co., South Carolina
3. Elizabeth Williams FURMAN b: Jan 1835 in South Carolina
4. Rebecca Dorothea FURMAN b: 1838 in Society Hill, Darlington Co., South Carolina
5. Henry FURMAN b: 1844 in Society Hill, Darlington Co., South Carolina
6. David FURMAN
7. Davis or David FURMAN b: 1836 in Society Hill, Darlington Co., South Carolina

• Married: 1856

1. Davis FURMAN b: abt 1859 in Greenville, South Carolina
2. Eugene Kincaid FURMAN b: abt 1860 in Greenville, South Carolina
3. Anne McMorris FURMAN b: abt 1858 or 1863 in Greenville, South Carolina
4. Mary Glenn FURMAN b: abt 1860 or 1868 in Greenville, South Carolina