Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Finch, Charles W 
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Author: Past & Present, 1907

Charles W. Finch, although never a resident of Lockport, was well known in 
business circles in northern Illinois, and his family following his death 
removed to this city, where Mrs. Finch still resides. Mr. Finch was born March 
31, 1824, in New York, and was there educated. Removing to the middle west in 
1847, he first settled at St. Charles, Illinois. He was a tailor by trade, but 
on account of ill health he learned the drug business and spent his life in 
that line. On removing from St. Charles to Batavia, Illinois, he established a 
drug store, which he conducted throughout his remaining days, being one of the 
leading merchants of that place in the middle of the nineteenth century. He 
was reliable and enterprising in business and made the best possible use of 
his opportunities. In his fraternal relations he was an Odd Fellow and both he 
and his wife were Universalists in religious faith. On the 1st of December, 
1850, Mr. Finch was united in marriage to Miss Hannah E. Hawley, a daughter of 
Lyman and Althea Hawley, of Lockport, who came to this place in 1835. The 
father was a farmer by occupation and died at the age of sixty-one years. The 
married life of Mr. and Mrs. Finch covered about seven years and was 
terminated by the death of the former on the 10th of November, 1857. Soon 
after Mrs. Finch removed to Lockport, where she has since lived. She lost 
three children in infancy and has two living daughters, Annah B., who has been 
a teacher in the public schools of Lockport for the past quarter of a century; 
and Cornelia, who became the wife of Zachariah W. Lynk, a farmer, who died 
June 9, 1904. They were the parents of three children, Mabelie A., Howard S. 
and Elsa E. It was on the 25th of January, 1882, that Cornelia Finch gave her 
hand in marriage to Mr. Lynk, who was born in New Lenox township, a son of 
Stanton and Isabel (Doig) Lynk, the former also an agriculturist. Following 
their marriage they removed to Belmont, Iowa, where Mr. Lynk carried on 
general farming until 1884, when they went to Nebraska, where he conducted a 
farm and general store for six years. They sold their business there in 1895 
and went to Laporte, Texas, where Mr. Lynk entered the field of business, 
conducting the same until his death, since which time the business has been 
ably carried on by Mrs. Lynk and her son. Mrs. Finch is well known in 
Lockport, where her early girlhood was passed, and in fact where she has spent 
the greater part of her life, having many friends here who hold her in warm 
esteem.

Additional Comments:
Past and Present of Will County, Illinois, by W. W. Stevens, President of the 
Will County Pioneers Association. Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing 
Company, 1907.

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