Biography of 	Finney, Walter S. Orleans Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by 	Mike Miller August 2001

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Walter S. Finney, New Orleans, La., is a young lawyer admirably adapted to the
honorable prosecution of this most exalted of professions, and possesses that
easy and interested grace of manner not easily acquired by the majority.  He was
born in New Orleans on the 9th of January, 1856, and his father, Hon. John
Finney, was a native Virginian and a lawyer by profession also.  The elder
Finney served one term in the Louisiana legislature and died in 1880.  His wife,
and the mother of our subject, Jouetta Davis, was born in the Bluegrass region
of Kentucky, and died in 1886.  Walter S. Finney received his collegiate
education in the Washington and Lee university, in which he spent one year, and
then returned to New Orleans, where, at the age of sixteen years, he took up the
study of law.  In 1876 he entered the law department of the University of
Louisiana and graduated from that institution the following year.  He was
shortly afterward admitted to the bar and at once began the practice of his
profession in New Orleans, where he has since continued and of which city he is
now a promising young lawyer.  He has been associated in the law practice with
Mr. Henry C. Miller since 1880, and since that year Mr. Finney has been the
counsel of the New Orleans Canal & Banking company.  He is a democrat in
politics, and is a member of the Delta Psi fraternity.  He is a member of the
Chess, Checker and Whist club of New Orleans.  Mr. Finney took an active part in
the reform campaign of 1888.  He is a member of the New Orleans Law association,
and is one of the rising young lawyers of New Orleans.  He was married on the
14th of February, 1887, to Miss Annie Geddings Hardy, of Asheville, N. C.

Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, (vol. 1), pp. 414-415. 
Published by the Goodspeed Publishing Company, Chicago, 1892.