Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Finch, Roy Herbert August 31, 1890 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders, Honolulu Star Bulletin, Ltd. Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

ROY HERBERT FINCH, Volcanologist. The vagaries of Madame Pele, ancient fire 
goddess of the Hawaiians, who is legendary dweller in the continuously active 
crater of Kilauea volcano, have occupied the scientific attention of Roy H. 
Finch as a seismologist during a period in which he has contributed many 
articles on volcanoes to mainland publications.
  Born Aug. 31, 1890, at Sunbury, O., he is the son of T. W. and Ida Finch. He 
was educated at George Washington University and the University of Chicago, 
with independent studies in meteorology and volcanology.
  Mr. Finch arrived in Hawaii in Aug., 1919, to assume his present position of 
seismologist at the Volcano Observatory. He had previously been a 
meteorologist attached to the United States Weather Bureau and had served as 
forecaster for the Naval Air Station, Wexford, Ireland, during the World War. 
He married Margaret Harvey on Oct. 12, 1923.


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