. Portraits of eminent Americans now living : with biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions. ence and care has securedfor himself and family a competency. He is a sincere well-wisher of allyouth, and particularly young men, many of whom can appreciate hisgood advice and friendly cautions, and attribute to him, in a greatmeasure, their success in business. He is courteous and pleasant in hisgeneral deportment and business transactions. He is quick of per-ception and active in temperament ; ready in deciding as to right andupholding it, and as ready in detecting the wrong a
. Portraits of eminent Americans now living : with biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions. ence and care has securedfor himself and family a competency. He is a sincere well-wisher of allyouth, and particularly young men, many of whom can appreciate hisgood advice and friendly cautions, and attribute to him, in a greatmeasure, their success in business. He is courteous and pleasant in hisgeneral deportment and business transactions. He is quick of per-ception and active in temperament ; ready in deciding as to right andupholding it, and as ready in detecting the wrong and condemning detests the indolent—drones on society, whether young or old, rich orpoor, male or female—and is ready in denouncing, them. He believesthat every one has a duty, by which all will be benefited, and that thatduty should be performed faithfully, and that no one is exempt from he is an ardent supporter of all good and wholesome laws; but heis equally as strenuous in his opposition to any attempts at law infringingthe natural liberty farther than is demanded for the good of 1 ^^^d byJ^CA^fli^fes^ ^?^^^^ //-i^-^ d:Z^ yi Bm,na,d fcrBwr^hM,^ SkOcfWs oF lOmmmi JOHN FINLAVSON, OF ANCILLA, JEFFERSON CO., FLORIDA. 453 HON. JOHN FINLAYSON, OF ANCILLA, JEFFERSON COUNTY, FLORIDA. Hon. John Finlayson was born in Marlboro District, South Caro-lina, ou the 9th of July, 1810. His father, Daniel Finlayson, who wasa native of Scotland, emigrated to this country in the year 1800, whenonly eighteen years of age. Being very poor, he worked for some years,as a common laborer, on Cape Fear river, between Wilmington, wherehe first landed, and Fayetteville. He married Christiana McRae, ofMarlboro District, by whom he had three children, the subject of thismemoir being the eldest. When John was eight years old, his fatherremoved to Georgia and settled in the county of Telfair; then one ofthe frontier counties, bordering ou the Indian territories, and inhabitedprinc
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