NOBLE COUNTY OHIO - BIO: William Finley (1887)

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From the The Ohio Biographies Project
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Transcribed by Deb Murray.

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William Finley came from Pennsylvania when a young man, and settled in
Seneca Township about 1825. He was a worthy, industrious pioneer, and used
to claim that he had cleared more land than any man he ever knew, except
Aaron Morris. In 1832 he married Rachel Glover, whose parents came to the
county about the same time that Mr. Finley did. Among his pioneer
experiences was hauling grain to the Muskingam River, forty miles, over
poorly constructed roads, selling it at from twenty-five to forty cents per
bushel, and taking the larger part of the proceeds in trade. After living
in Seneca Township thirty-five years, in 1860 he removed to Center
Township, and thence in 170 to Wayne County, Iowa, taking with him his
younger children. His wife died in 1878 and he in 1886. The grandfather of
William Finley and his brother, aged nineteen and twenty-one years
respectively, came to America from Ireland just before the Revolution.
Landing in New York without means, they there separated, and the identity
of the two families was never certainly fixd, except that the family of
Patrick Finley had a similar legend.

History of Noble County, Ohio Published by 
L.H. Watkins & Co. of Chicago 1887
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