Archibald Finlayson Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Surname: FINLAYSON
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915

Page 1013

     ARCHIBALD FINLAYSON, operator for the Direct Cable Com-
pany at Rye Beach, who has held his present position since 1888, was
born in Scotland, April 22, 1859, a son of Donald and Dollina (Murry)
Finlayson. His parents, both natives of Scotland; never came to this
country. They had three children, the two others being George and
James.
     The subject of this sketch was educated in the common schools of
his native land and subsequently learned telegraphy at Ardgay, Scot- 
land, where he was in the government service four years. He was sta-
tioned at Glasgow for three years, after which he became associated
with the Direct Cable Company at Liverpool, England, in 1881, remain-
ing there three years. His next post was in Ireland, where he was
employed in the same business and for the same company four years,
after which he came to Rye Beach, N. H., to assume the duties of his
present position.
     Mr. Finlayson married Elizabeth Lord of Kennebunk, Me., in 1894.
She is a daughter of Robert and Mary (Mendum) Lord, residents of
the State of Maine, where her father was engaged in business as a cot-
ton manufacturer. The Lord family included two other children: Sarah,
who married Judge Edwin Cram, of Biddeford,Me., and Frances, wife
of Dr. Augustus Lord, a Unitarian minister of Providence, R. I. Mr.
and Mrs. Finlayson have two children, Mary and Donald. Mrs. Fin-
layson is a member of the Unitarian church and her husband of the
Congregational.

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