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 HBRRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Usher of the Republican and Leader. Since 1897 he has been envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States to Paraguay and Uruguay. Finck, Edward Bertrand, lawyer, author,

was born

Oct. 16, 1870, in Louisville,

Ky.

He was

educated at AUmond's university school; and at the Louisville law school. He is a successful attorney-at-law of Louisville, Ky. Under the nom de plume of Bert Finch he is the author of Pebbles, Webs, Plays, Musings and Pastelo, all works of a philosophical nature. Finck, Henry Theophilus, journalist, author, was born Sept. 23, 1854, in Bethel, Mo. He is a musical journalist of New York City. He is the author of Wagner

and Other Musicians; Romantic Love and Personal Beauty; Chopin, and Other Musical Essays; Lotos-Time in Japan; The Pacific Coast Scenic Tour; Spain and Morocco; Wagner and His Works; and other books. Findlay, James,

congressman, was county.

Pa.

state legislator, in 1775 in Franklin receiver of public

soldier,

bom

He was

moneys

in Cincinnati district from the first establishment of land oflBees until 1824. He was colonel of the second Ohio volunteers in 1812, serving under General Hull at Detroit. In 1825-29 and in 1831-33 he was a representative to the nineteenth, twentieth

twenty-second congresses; and was candidate for governor in 1834. He died Deo. 28, 1835, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Findlay, John, congressman, was bom in Meroersburg, Pa. In 1821-27 and 1829-31 he .was a representative from Pennsylvania to the seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth and twenty-fiist congresses. He died Nov. 5, 1838, in Chambersburg, Pa. Findlay, John King, lawyer, jurist, author, was bom May 12, 1803, in Mercersburg, Pa. He was recorder of Lancaster in 1841-45; judge of the Philadelphia district court in 1845-51; and president of the third judicial district of Pennsylvania in 1857-62. He published an enlarged edition of Archbold's Law of Nisi Prius in two volumes. He died Sept. 13, 1885, in Spring Lake, N.J.

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senate from Pennsylvania. He died Nov. 12, 1846, in Harrisburg, Pa. Findley, Clement Alexander, surgeon, was born May 11, 1797, in Newville, Pa. He was medical director in the Black Hawk, Seminole and Mexican wars; and spent nearly eight years on the frontier of Arkansas, Louisiana and Florida. He was made surgeon-general of the army in 1861. He died Sept. 8, 1879, in Philadelphia, Pa. Findley, David Edward, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Feb. 38, 1861, in Trenton, Ark. He was a member of the house of representatives of South Carolina in 1890-91; and a member of the state senate in 1892-96. He was elected to the fiftysixth congress as a democrat. Findley, Palmer, physician, surgeon, auwas born April 22, 1868, in Lewis, Iowa. Since 1893 he has practiced medicine and surgery in Chicago, 111. He is the author of Gynecological Diagnosis. thor,

Findley, Samuel, clergyman, educator, auwas born Oct. 36, 1818, in West Middletown. Pa. In 1846-48 he was president of Madison college of Antrim, Ohio; and in 1857-61 pastor of a. presbyterian church in Pittsburg, Pa. He was a professor in the Western university of Pennsylvania in 186163; and in 1865-70 was in the Western military academy, Dayton, Ohio. He is the author of Rambles Among the Insects. thor,

Findley,

gyman,

Thomas

Maskell, educator, cler-

college president,

was bom

Baltimore, Md. Findlay, William, governor. United States

Sept. 29, Pa. In 1883 he was appointed president of the university of southern Dakota, which he had founded and organized. In 1885 he became pastor of the Ninth presbyterian church of St. Paul, Minn. Since 1898 has been pastorat-large of St. Cloud presbytery. Findley, William, governor, United States senator, was bom in Franklin county. Pa. He was governor of Pennsylvania in 181730; and in 1831-37 he was United States He died Nov. 14, 1846, in Pennsenator. sylvania. Findley, William, soldier, congressman, author, was born Jan. 11, 1751, in Ireland. He came to Pennsylvania in early life; and served in the revolution. He was a member of the Pennsylvania legislature and of the state convention that adopted the federal constitution. In 1791-99 and 1803-17 he was a, representative from Pennsylvania to the second, third, fourth, fifth, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth congresses as a democrat. He was the author of History of the Insurrection of the Four Western Counties of Pennsylvania. He died April 5, 1831, in Westmoreland county, Pa.

senator, was bom June 20, 1768, in Mercersburg, Pa. In 1807 he was chosen treasurer of Pennsylvania; and in 1817-20 was the fourth governor of that state. In 182127 he was a member of the United States

1814, in West Middletown, He held pastorates at Chillicothe, Pa. Springfield, and Xenia, Ohio, and Newark, N.J.; and in 1867-68 edited the Family

Findlay, John

Van

Lear, orator, state leg-

congressman, was born Dec. 21, 1839, He was a represenin Williamsport, Md. tative in the state legislature in 1861-62; and in 1866 was appointed collector of inHe was city ternal revenue at Baltimore. solicitor in 1876-78; and was the orator islator,

for Maryland at the centennial exposition in 1876. In 1883-87 he was a representative to the forty-eighth and forty-nmth congresses as a democrat. He died in 1907 in

1847, in

West Mahoning,

Findley,

William

was born June

2,

Thornton,

clergyman,