| LC control no. | no2018059660 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Finney, Frederick Norton, 1832-1916 |
| Birth date | 1832-03-07 |
| Death date | 1916-03-16 |
| Place of birth | Boston (Mass.) |
| Place of death | San Francisco (Calif.) |
| Field of activity | Law Railroads Engineering Writing |
| Profession or occupation | Lawyers Executives Engineers Authors |
| Found in | Finney, Frederick Norton. Letters from across the sea, 1907-1908, 1909: title page (by Frederick Norton Finney) State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Dictionary of Wisconsin biography, 1960 : page 130 (Finney, Frederick Norton (Mar. 7, 1832-Mar. 16, 1916), railroad executive, construction engineer, b. Boston, Mass. He attended Oberlin College, and in 1852 settled in Oshkosh. After practicing law for a few years, he began his long career as a railroad construction engineer and built lines in Ohio, Michigan, Illinois and Pennsylvania. Returning to Wisconsin, he settled in Milwaukee and became associated with the Wisconsin Central R.R. While with the Wisconsin Central, he organized the subsidiary firm Colby and Finney Construction Co., which built the line from Abbotsford to Chippewa Falls and St. Paul. He was an organizer of the Wisconsin Union Trust Co. (1890). About 1899 he left Wisconsin, and for several years was engaged in railroad building in the southwest. He retired to Pasadena in 1907.) Ancestry website, viewed April 26, 2018 (Frederick Norton Finney (1832-1916); Born in Boston, Massachusetts on 7 Mar. 1832 to Charles Grandison Finney and Lydia Root Andrews. Frederick Norton Finney married Willianna Wallace Clark and had 5 children. He passed away on 18 Mar. 1916 in San Francisco, California, USA.) Milwaukee Journal, viewed online on May 1, 2018 : "Noted road builder dies in California", article dated Mar. 20, 1916 (Frederick Norton Finney, 84, former managing director of the Milwaukee Central, who left Milwaukee seventeen years ago to live in the west, died in his home in San Francisco, Saturday. Retiring from railroad service after forty years, he spent the remainder of his life in rest and travel. He wrote several books, among them Three months in Italy, A souvenir of the Nile, In memoriam, and Letters from across the sea.) <https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=-hAaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=FyEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4443%2C3626614> OCLC, viewed May 1, 2018 (access points: Finney, Frederick Norton, 1832-1919; Finney, Frederick Norton) |
| Associated language | eng |
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