The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . literaryexecutor, Edward L. Pierce, two volumes, 1877, ex-tending only to 1845, and his complete works in fif-teen volumes, issued 1870, 1883; and his Life andServices, by Charles
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . literaryexecutor, Edward L. Pierce, two volumes, 1877, ex-tending only to 1845, and his complete works in fif-teen volumes, issued 1870, 1883; and his Life andServices, by Charles Edwards Lester (1874), E. Na-son (1874), and D. Harsha (1874). He died in Wash-ington March 11, 1874. FINCH, Asahel, lawyer and philanthropist,was born in Genoa, Cayuga county, N. Y., Feb. 14,1809. His grandfather Finch was one of the earlysettlers in Wyoming Valley, Pa., and a victim of theIndian massacre in 1778. His educational advan-tages were limited to the common school and localacademy of Genesee county, N. Y. In 1830 he mar-ried Mary De Forest Bristol, and went to Michiganwhere he followed mercantile pursuits for threeyears. In 1834 he began the study of law withOrange Butler at Adrian, and four years later wasadmitted to the bar. In 1839 he removed to Wis-consin and made Milwaukee his home. In 1843 heformed a copartnership with Wm. Pitt Lynde, whichcontinued over forty years, and was only dissolved. ^c:$k.^,^>^ by the death of Mr. Finch. In 1857 B. K. Miller andH. M. Finch became members of the firm and thename was changed to Finches, Lynde & duties and responsibilities incident to his pro-fession did not prevent Mr. Finch from promptlydischarging other obligations that were laid uponhim as a citizen of the city andstate. When he settled in Mil-waukee in 1839, Wisconsin wasa frontier territory, and every-thing pertaining to a civilizedcommunity and statehood wasin embryo. In politics he wasa whig, and adhered to thatparty until it was dissolved af-ter th
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