Finn, Henry J
actor, was born in 1782 in New York city. In 1811 he appeared in Montreal, and thereafter played at other places, being in Savannah, Ga., in 1818-20. He died Jan. 13, 1840, on Long Island Sound.
CHARLES FINNEY, GRANDISON, clergyman, college president, author. He was a congregational clergyman famous during his earlier career as a revivalist.
He was president of Oberlin college in 1852-66. He is the author of Lectures on Revivals; Systematic Theology; Lectures to Professing Christians; Character of Free Masonry; and Sermons on Gospel Themes.