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Finch, Francis Miles – Fine, John

Finch, Francis Miles

jurist, author, poet, was born June 9, 1827, in Ithaca, N. Y. He was a New York jurist and dean of the law school of Cornell university since 1892. He has published a number of poems, among which Nathan Hale and The Blue and the Gray are well known.

Finch, H. Stanley

lawyer, jurist, was born July 24, 1853, in Stamford, Conn.

In 1879 he was admitted to the bar, and has attained success in the practice of law in his native city. He has been justice of the peace, and since 1887 has been judge of the court of probate.

Finch, Isaac

state legislator, congressman, was born in New York. He was a member of the assembly of that state in 1822 and 1824, and was a representative in congress from New York from 1829 to 1831.

Finck, Henry Theophilus

journalist, author, was born Sept. 22, 1854, in Bethel, Mo. He is a musical journalist of New York city, and the author of Wagner and Other Musicians; Romantic Love and Personal Beauty; Chopin, and Other Musical Essays; Lotus-Time in Japan; The Pacific Coast Scenic Tour; and Spain and Morocco.

Findlay, James

soldier, state legislator, congressman, was born in 1775 in Franklin county, Pa. He was receiver of public moneys in Cincinnati district from the first establishment of land offices until 1824. He was colonel of the second Ohio volunteers in 1812, serving under General Hull at Detroit. He was a representative in congress from 1825 to 1833; and was candidate for governor in 1834. He died Dec. 28, 1835, in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Findlay, John

congressman, was born in Franklin county, Pa. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania, from 1823 to 1827.

Findlay, John King

lawyer, jurist, author, was born May 12, 1803, in Mercersburg, Pa. He was recorder of Lancaster in 1841-45, judge of the Philadelphia district court in 1845-51, and president of the third judicial district of Pennsylvania in 1857-62. He published an enlarged edition of Archbold's Law of Nisi Prius in two volumes. He died Sept. 13, 1885, in Spring Lake, N. J.

Findlay, John Van Lear

state legislator, was born Dec. 21, 1839, in Williamsport, Md. He was a representative in the state legislature in 1861 and 1862; and in 1866 was appointed collector of internal revenue at Baltimore. He was city solicitor from 1876 to 1878; and was the orator for Maryland at the centennial exposition in 1876. He was elected to the forty-eighth and forty-ninth congresses as a democrat.

Findlay, William

governor, was born June 20, 1768, in Mercersburg, Pa.

In 1807 he was chosen treasurer of Pennsylvania, and in 1817 became governor of that state.

Findley, Samuel

clergyman, educator, author, was born Oct. 26, 1818, in West Middletown, Pa. He was an associate reformed clergyman and educator, and the author of Rambles Among the Insects.

Findley, Thomas Maskell

educator, clergyman, college president, was born September 29, 1847, in West Mahoning, Pa. In 1883 he was appointed president of the university of southern Dakota, at Pierre, which he had founded and organized. In 1885 he became pastor of the Ninth Presbyterian church, St.

Paul, Minn.

Fine, John

lawyer, jurist, congressman, author, was born Aug. 26, 1784, in New York city. He settled in St. Lawrence county, N. Y., and was a judge in that county for eighteen years, from 1821 to 1839, and again in 1844. He was county treasurer from 1821 to 1833, and a state senator in 1848. He was a representative in congress from 1839 to 1841. He published a volume of law lectures. He died Jan. 4, 1867, in Ogdensburg.