Furber was an officer in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union's (WCTU) local, county and district organizations.

Her limited opportunities for schooling in youth and her continued ill-health in later years made it impossible for her to become well-educated.

[1] Her verse was described as "telling the story of a soul that had not trodden dusty, common highways, but was alone in the sunlight and darkness with itself, nature and God.

[1] Furber was identified with WCTU work for years as an officer in local, county and district organizations.

[1] She wrote the Union-Signal suggesting that the motto of the WCTU be changed from "For God and Home and Native Land" to "For God and Home and Land we Lore," alleging as a reason that foreign-born citizens were sensitive in regard to the wording of the motto at it stood, and saying that it made them feel like aliens.

[4] Furber wrote the words for "Roll on, temperance tide", set to music by Edwin Moore.

Among the many poets of the Mississippi Valley, Furber was considered unique,[2] her poems exhibiting an old-English character, only noticeable in such late English poets as Jean Ingelow and Christina Rossetti, while the work of most women-poets of the time was modeled, consciously or unconsciously, on that of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.