C. Henry Finck

Birth Date

1831

Death Date

1878-10-14

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Louisville, Kentucky, liquor merchant. Native of Hanover, Germany. Married to Lizzie Jacobs Finck in Louisville on February 11, 1858. Father of six children. Master Mason in Willis Stewart Lodge. Founded the Western Insurance Bank and served as President. Helped establish the German-English Academy, the Orphans' Society, the Protestant German Orphan Asylum. Served as director of Southern Mutual Life Insurance Company.

Henry Tanner, ed., Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 87.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, p. 64-65.
Birth and Death Records: Covington, Lexington, Louisville, and Newport – Microfilm (before 1911), KDLA, Roll #7007126, Louisville Deaths, p. 306-07.
“C. Henry Finck Dead,” Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), October 15, 1878, p. 4.

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