Chester County PA Archives Obituaries.....Finegan, Bernard April 6, 1905
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Daily Local News, 8 Apr 1905
Bernard FINEGAN, Sr., one of the oldest members of St. Agnes’ Catholic Church, 
is dead at the age of 87 years.  He passed away Thursday, pneumonia being the 
cause, after a week’s illness.For a quarter of a century Mr. FINEGAN had lived 
on his farm at Fern Hill, from which had been sold a tract for the borough 
pumping station and settling pond, and on Thursday of last week moved to West 
Chester, having rented his property.  Leaving it late to find a home, he was 
obliged to take a house in the suburbs and so located at 306 East Marshall 
Street, between Marshall Square and the Convent of the Immaculate Heart.  He 
was taken with pneumonia the day he moved, and death followed in a week. Mr. 
FINEGAN came to West Chester in 1848, from his home in Ireland, being one of 
many young men who emigrated from that country about that time.  There are now 
three brothers living, Patrick, who is tipstaff in the Court, James, who was 
long a merchant at the corner of Gay and Church Streets, and Sylvester, in 
Ireland.  James came to West Chester a year after Bernard. When Bernard arrived 
here, he located on the farm of Marshall STRODE, in East Bradford, where he 
remained a year or more, becoming acquainted with the country and learning the 
ways of America.  Later he worked for S. Emlen SHARPLES, who at that time 
conducted a brickyard, and for a time he farmed at Cheney, opposite the 
station, also a year or two on the Woodward farm at Marshallton.  For about 
twenty-five years he owned the Fern Hill farm. For a long time he went to 
market in Philadelphia, having many patrons in that district. In politics he 
was a Democrat. He married Catherine CALDWELL, sister of John CALDWELL, and 
they lived happily together until five or six years ago, when her death 
occurred.  The following children survive:  Thomas, of West Chester; John, a 
farmer near the old place; Frank, a bricklayer by trade, and Ella, the only 
daughter, who is at home.

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