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C. Henry Finck (Louisville liquor dealer)

b. 1831 d. 1878-10-14

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.

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White

Bibliography

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.

Citation

Finck, C. Henry. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32211078 (November 12, 2026).

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