Editing Joseph Furphy (section)

==Personal life==
Furphy was born at Yering Station in [[Yering, Victoria|Yering]], Victoria.<ref name=ADB/> His father, Samuel Furphy, was originally a tenant farmer from [[Tandragee]], County Armagh, Ireland, who emigrated to Australia in {{Circa|1840-1841}}.<ref>[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bcollins/general/famous/tom.htm Collins Family History – General Information<!-- bot-generated title -->] at freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com</ref><ref name=ADB/> Samuel Furphy was head gardener on the station. There was no school in the district and at first Joseph was educated by his mother. The only books available were the Bible and Shakespeare<ref name=ADB/><ref name=":3" /> and at seven years of age Furphy was already learning passages of each by heart; he never forgot them. In about 1850 the family moved to [[Kangaroo Ground, Victoria|Kangaroo Ground]], Victoria,<ref name=ADB/> and here the parents of the district built a school and obtained a master. In 1852 they moved again, to Kyneton where Samuel Furphy began business as a hay and corn merchant.<ref name=ADB/> A few years later he leased a farm and also bought a threshing plant.<ref name=ADB/> This was worked by Joseph and a brother and both became competent engine-drivers. In 1864 Furphy bought a threshing outfit and travelled the Daylesford and surrounding districts. At Glenlyon he met Leonie Selina Germain, a girl of 16 of French extraction, and in {{Circa|1866-1867}} they were married.<ref name=ADB/>

Soon after, his wife's mother went to New Zealand and Furphy for a time carried on her farm, but two years later took up a selection near Colbinabbin. The land proved to be poor and in about 1873 he sold out and soon afterwards bought a team of bullocks.<ref name=ADB/> He became prosperous as the years went by, but the drought came and he had heavy losses.<ref name=ADB/> Some of his bullocks and horses died from pleuro-pneumonia, and in 1884 he accepted a position in the foundry of his brother [[John Furphy|John]] at [[Shepparton, Victoria|Shepparton]].<ref name=ADB/><ref name=":3" /> There he worked for some 20 years doing much reading in the evenings.<ref name=ADB/>

In 1904, Furphy and his wife moved to Western Australia to join his sons.<ref name=ADB/> He built a house at [[Swanbourne, Western Australia|Swanbourne]]. Furphy died in [[Claremont, Western Australia|Claremont]] on 13 September 1912 and is buried in [[Karrakatta Cemetery]].<ref name=ADB/>