OBIT: Earl S. FINLEY, 1918, Steelton, Dauphin County, PA

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STEELTON

  SECOND STEELT'N BOY DIES IN WAR

  Earl S. Finley Succumbs to Wounds Received in France

  STEELTON, July 24. - The great world war was brought home to the 
borough for the second time when word was received yesterday by Mr. and 
Mrs. J. A. Finley, North Harrisburg street that their son, Earl S. 
Finley, had succumbed on July 6 to wounds received while fighting in 
France.
  Young Finley, who was 25 years old, was a Steelton High School 
graduate of the class of 1911.  He had seen five years' service in the 
Regular Army prior to his death and was with General Pershing during 
the trouble on the Mexican border a few years ago.  He was a top 
sergeant and a member of Company F, Second Engineers, one of the first 
contingents of the American expeditionary forces to be sent across the 
Atlantic, sailing for France in August, 1917.
  The telegram to the parents of the dead patriot merely gave the date 
and cause of the death, making no mention of the location of the spot 
where he was killed and buried.
  Although Finley was the first local boy to be killed in France with 
the American Army, Henry Askin, colored, of this place, lost his life 
while in the service of Uncle Sam.  Askin was a member of the crew of 
the Cyclops, the American collier which disappeared several months ago.

The Evening News, Harrisburg, Penna., Wednesday, July 24, 1918