Marin-San Francisco County CA Archives Divorce.....Finigan, Amelia (Emily) (Boysen) - Finigan, Peter Andrew February 27, 1906
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San Francisco Call, February 28, 1906 (Wednesday)
“EMILY FINIGAN IS FREE AGAIN 
Wife of San Rafael Capitalist Wins Divorce and $50 a Month Alimony 
SUIT TEN YEARS OLD 
Jealousy Believed to Have Been Cause of Troubles of the Mismated Couple 
Special Dispatch to The Call.
SAN RAFAEL. Feb. 27.— Judge Thomas J. Lennon decided the ancient Finigan 
divorce suit today, granting the plaintiff, Emily Finigan, an interlocutory 
decree of divorce from her aged husband, Peter A. Finigan, and allowing her $50 
a month alimony. Finigan is much opposed to the alimony laws. When his wife 
first brought suit he was ordered to pay her temporary alimony but rather than 
do so he went to jail, spending seven weeks in the county institution. The 
confinement did not seem to bother him, so Judge Frank M. Angellotti ordered 
him released. 
The trouble of the Finigans began at the Hotel Rafael in November, 1896, when 
Mrs. Finigan, after a quarrel, left her husband and went to her parents in San 
Francisco. She brought suit for divorce on the ground of refined cruelty and 
asked for handsome alimony. The case was transferred to this county and Mrs. 
Finigan was allowed counsel fees and alimony pending the trial. She was unable 
to collect her alimony, though Finigan was supposed to have a large estate. 
Mrs. Finigan went to Europe as a chaperon while her attorneys were trying to 
collect the money. They met with no success. First one lawyer took her case, 
then another. Each met with the same success. 
The main issue in the case was not heard until January 24, of this year. The 
trial lasted until February 2. The principal testimony in the case was 
furnished by the plaintiff, the defendant, the plaintiff’s sister, Miss Minnie 
Boysen, and Finigan's daughters by his first marriage — Misses Maude, Marie and 
Lillian Finigan. 
It was brought out in the testimony that Finigan was jealous of his wife. Mrs. 
Finigan accused him of insulting her every time she would speak to or look at a 
young man. At Del Monte, the Hotel Baltimore, in San Francisco and in various 
cities of Europe, she said, she was subjected to much humiliation by his 
actions, both in private and public. 
Mrs. Finigan was Miss Emily Boysen, the 19-year-old daughter of a San Francisco 
chemist, a very beautiful and accomplished girl, when in 1884 she was married 
to Finigan, a widower, 52 years of age. He has two sons and three daughters by 
his first wife, but no children by his second." END


Additional Comments:
Page 6, Column 6.  Emily was the daugher of Julius and Engla (Rosenlog) Boysen 
of San Francisco.

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