Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . r years hewas a manager and performer. In Boston he setup, successfully, for a wit and punster in the man-ner of Thomas Hood, and relinquished heroic partsfor comic and eccentric characters. Among thesenew assumptions were Paul Pry, Billy , and Dr. Pangloss. For ten years after-ward his time was devoted to starring tours in largecities, and monologue variety entertainments insmaller places. He accumulated a handsome com-petence. Returning toward his Newport home,where he was proprietor of a straw-hat factory, hewas lost on the steamer
Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . r years hewas a manager and performer. In Boston he setup, successfully, for a wit and punster in the man-ner of Thomas Hood, and relinquished heroic partsfor comic and eccentric characters. Among thesenew assumptions were Paul Pry, Billy , and Dr. Pangloss. For ten years after-ward his time was devoted to starring tours in largecities, and monologue variety entertainments insmaller places. He accumulated a handsome com-petence. Returning toward his Newport home,where he was proprietor of a straw-hat factory, hewas lost on the steamer Lexington. which wasburned on Long Island sound. He left a widowand twelve children. Finn wrote several dramasthat were successfully produced but never pub-lished. His Comic Annuals were favorably re-ceived, but their witticisms, puns, and sayings,being largely imitative, have perished. FINNEY, Charles Grandison, clergyman, Warren, Litchfield Conn., 29 1792 : Oberlin, Ohio, 10 Aug., 1875. He removed with 462 FIXOTTl FISH. / ^ ^ ^ /-L^J-^ly! his father to Oneida county. X. Y., in 1794, andwhen about twenty years old engaged in teachingin New Jersey, lie began to study law in Jeffersoncounty. X. in 1818. but. having been convertedin 1821, studied theology, was licensed to preach inthe Presbyterian church in 1824. and began tolabor as an evangelist. He met with great successin Utica, Troy. Philadelphia. Boston, and NewYork. Od his second visit to the last city, in , the Chatham streettheatre was boughtand made into achurch for him, andthe New York Evan-gelist established asan advocate of therevival. His laborshere resulted in theestablishmentof seven free Presbyterian churches, and in 1834he became pastor ofthe Broadway Taber-nacle, which had beenbuilt especially forhim. Mr. Finney ac-cepted, in 1835, theprofessorship of theology at Oberlin, which had justbeen founded by his friends, and retained it untilhis death. Here he assisted in establishing th
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