Solano-San Francisco County CA Archives Biographies.....Finch, H. G. 1819 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

H. G. FINCH, farmer of Solano County, is the son of John and Mehetabel (Brown)
Finch. His father, born in the State of New York in 1766, was a blacksmith by
trade and in the war of 1812 did the shoeing of horses for many regiments; he
died in Hamilton County, Indiana, at the age of eighty-one years; his mother was
born also in New York State, in 1777, died in Hamilton County, Indiana, some
years previously. Mr. Finch, our subject, was born in Wayne County, Indiana, in
1819, and resided in Hamilton County, Indiana, until the Mexican war, when he
took the position of clerk of a quartermaster's office, and was employed by the
Government until 1849, when he came here through the Straits of Magellan, in the
steamer Panama, commanded by Admiral D. D. Porter, U. S. N., to California,
being 107 days on the trip. He first employed himself in this State in mining on
the north fork of the American River: and then engaged in mining about three
months at Big Bar; and then he went to Benicia, where he was again employed as a
clerk in the quartermaster's office, and then in a similar position in San
Francisco. During the civil war, he spent a year and a half in St. Louis,
Missouri, and after this he traveled over the United States a great deal in the
employ of the Government. He settled in Solano County in 1871, within five miles
of Winters, Yolo County; and here he now has 182 acres of well improved land,
devoted mostly to fruit. He rents the land and lives at Winters.

  For his wife he married Miss Mary A. Cosebolt, who was afterward killed by a
railroad car while crossing the track at Suisun City, February 10, 1888. Mr.
Finch has one son, named Fabius T., aged fourteen years, attending school at San
Francisco.


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Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California.

Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast
from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with
Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of
Prominent Citizens of To-day.

"A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendents." – Macauley.

CHICAGO
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1891.

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