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Name
Lester Elmer Finger   #8245
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Born
31 Jul 1894
Place
Paton, Greene, Iowa
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Died
Jul 1968
Place
Des Moines, Polk, Iowa
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     approx. age 74


Buried

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Spouse
Date
abt 1923
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He is the son of John Finger, an adopted son of an unknown Finger family in Illinois about 1863. His birth name was John Reese. Read more about him.

Found him on the 1900 Paton, Greene, Iowa census (dist 95 img 15) as Lester Finger age 5.

Found him on the 1910 Junction, Greene, Iowa census (dist 102 img 10) age 16.

Found him on the 1915 Grand Junction, Greene, Iowa census age 20. Found him on the 1920 Grand Junction, Greene, Iowa census (dist 114 img 15) as Lester Finger age 24. He is single and he and his widowed father John Finger are living with his sister Elizabeth and her husband William Bridgett.

WWI Draft Registration

Found him on the 1930 Des Moines, Boone, Iowa census (dist 11 img 11) age 31, married. Electrician, steam railroad.

Found him on the 1940 Grand Junction, Greene, Iowa census (dist 37-15 img 6) as Lester E. Finger age 44, divorced. Laborer. He is living in the household of his sister and brother-in-law William and Delia Bridget.


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| John H. Finger 1854             |
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|- Lester Elmer Finger   
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|                                 | John Stroh  1823                |   
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| Louisa Elizabeth Stroh 1860     |
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                                  | Elizabeth Burke 1838            |
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