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Name
William Harlow Finger   #3773
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Born
abt 1830
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Died
18 Sep 1895
Place
New York State Soldiers and Sailors Home, Bath, NY
Source
     approx. age 65


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Spouse
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  1  Harlow Oliver "Ollie" Finger 1868
  2  James Finger abt 1872
  3  Mabel Finger abt 1878

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Found him on the 1850 Milo, Yates, New York census (img 37) as William H. Finger age 20, boatman.

Found him on the 1855 Milo, Yates, New York state census (E.D. 01 img 16) as William Finger age 23, laborer. He is single and living at home.

Found him on the 1860 Milo, Yates, New York census (img 100) as Harlow Finger age 28, laborer, single, living at home.

Found him on the 1870 Penn Yan, Yates, New York census (img 63) as Harlow Finger age 40, day laborer.

Found him on the 1875 Benton, Yates, New York state census (E.D. 01 img 12) as Harlow Finger age 45, laborer.

Found him on the 1880 Milo, Yates, New York census (dist 220 img 23) as Harlow Finger age 50, laborer.

WILLIAM HARLOW FINGER, of Penn Yan, enlisted at Geneva Oct. 15, aged 31 years. Joined for duty and enrolled at Elmira Nov. 15. Not mustered into the U.S. service. Absent from company, and dropped from the rolls as a deserter Feb. 1, 1862. Subsequent service in Bat. B 3d Art. - Yates County's 'Boys In Blue' - pg 40, 41

WILLIAM HARLOW FINGER, enlisted in Bat. B at Penn Yan Dec. 16, aged 32 (29) years. Discharged March 27, 1865, to date March 11, at Hilton Head, S.C., expiration of term of enlistment. Prior enlistment in Co. G, 85th Inf. - Yates County's 'Boys In Blue' - pg 52

He enlisted in Company Batty B, 3rd Light Artillery Regiment New York on 18 December 1861. Discharged Company Batty B, 3rd Light Artillery Regiment New York on 11 March 1865 in Hilton Head, SC - Civil War Soldiers Record from ancestry.com

He lived with his brother David Finger about 1890 - Civil War Pension Record, NARA

In the Register of Inmates Admitted to the New York Soldiers' and Sailors Home record, it says he was admitted and re-admitted: Dec 1st 1886 Feby 10, 1888 Nov 23, 1889 and October 23, 1892. He was discharged from the home March 22, 1887 April 10, 1888 and Sept 26, 1890. It said he contracted 'Constitutional Syphilis and Rheumatism at Morris Island, S.C. 1864.' His Nearest Living Relative is listed as 'Harlow Finger (Son) Penn Yan. N. Y.' He is listed as a widower.


                                                                    | David Finger  1733
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                                  | Johannes E. Finger  1758        | 
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                                  |                                 | Elisabeth Dick 1738 
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| David Finger 1793               |
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|                                 | Grietze "Margaret" Wieler 1758  |
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| Alida Unknown 1792              |
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