Hugh F. Finley

Birth Date

1833-01-18

Death Date

1909-10-16

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Whitley County, Kentucky, attorney and commonwealth's attorney. Tennessee native. Son of Robert Finley and Ann Finley. Married to Jennie Renfro Moss Finley. Father of Frank Wolford Finley and Charles Finley. Attorney in Williamsburg, Kentucky, in 1860. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Whitley County from 1861 to 1862. Commonwealth's attorney for the 12th Judicial District of Kentucky from 1862 to 1866.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Whitley County, District No. 2, p. 419B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Whitley County, Williamsburg, p. 76.
Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1878), 758.
"Hugh Franklin Finley (1833-1909)," Find A Grave, Memorial 7781672, accessed July 27, 2017, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7781672.

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