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Charles Osborne Furbush (1835–1916) was an American printer in Maine. He published various books and pamphlets as well as the Machias Republican newspaper.

Furbush was born in Lebanon, Maine to Richard and Phebe Furbush. In 1858 he married Julia Frences and had a gaggle of children.

In May 1853 he co-founded the Machias Union newspaper. He sold out his interest in the paper in 1859 and bought the Machias Republican established by Stacy Fowler. He continued with it until his retirement when William B. Nash took over in 1900.

The Union was a Democratic Party paper published in Machias on Tuesdays and the Republican Party affiliated Republican was printed on Saturdays.

In 1885, he became a member of the Maine Press Association.

In 1921 it was one of several printers on Exchange Street in Bangor. In 1922, Elmer E. Roberts joined the company from the Bangor Daily News.

Furbush Printing Company published The Northern magazine.

Charles E. Roberts also worked for the company and announced an interruption in his service while with the U.S. military.

Machias, Maine

Bangor, Maine

Son Oliver Nay Furbush and grandson? Robert Furbush continued the trade.

Publications

 * Memorial of the Centennial Anniversary of the Settlement of Machias (1863) by William Barlett Smith
 * History of Stetson, Maine, 1800-1931 by Lilla Wood Daniels (1931)

Furbush-Roberts

 * History of the Maine Woods (1963) by Philip T. Coolidge
 * The History of Patten Academy, 1847-1947 (1947)
 * A History of Education in Maine; A Study of a Section of American Educational History by Ava Harriet Chadbourne (1960)
 * Park Holland; Revolutionary Soldier, Maine Surveyor by Philip Tripp Coolidge (1967)
 * Lost in Bangor (2010)
 * The Past is a Different Place; An Anthology of Bangor & Aroostook Railroad's Maine Line Magazine 1952-1991, compiled by Robert Sprague (2012)