Biography

08/11/1814 - 08/25/1868

Darwin Abel Finney (W20) Crawford, Erie Counties, 1855-1859 (W27) ) Crawford, Erie Counties 1860-1861

Early Life: 

Darwin Abel Finney, born August 11, 1814, Shrewsbury, Rutland County, Vermont; son of Levi and Orpha P. Clark Finney; public school education; Rutland Military Academy, Rutland, Vermont; moved, Meadville, Pennsylvania; clerk, law office, Kingsbury, New York, in 1834-1835; Allegheny College, Meadville, 1840; married, Marion Johns; publisher, Whig Statesman and People’s Free Press, 1841-1848; studied law, admitted, bar, 1842; attorney, law practice, Meadville; Meadville burgess, 1848; elected, Republican, Pennsylvania State Senate, 1855-1861; director, Meadville Railroad Company, 1857; founder, Meadville Cemetery; elected, Republican, United States Congressman, Fortieth Congress, 1867-1868; died, Bright’s disease, August 25, 1868 (aged 54) Brussels, Arrondissement Brussel-Hoofdstad, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium, interment, Greendale Cemetery, Meadville, Crawford County, Pennsylvania.

Early Career:

Director, Meadville Railroad Company, 1857; founder, Meadville Cemetery.

Pennsylvania Politics:

Meadville burgess, 1848.

Elected, Whig, Pennsylvania State Senate, 20^th district, Crawford, Erie Counties, 1855-1859; elected, Speaker, Pennsylvania State Senate, May 21, 1857.

Elected, Whig, Pennsylvania State Senate, 27th district, Crawford, Erie Counties, 1860-1861.

Names of any service after Senate –year(s):

Elected, Republican, United States Congressman, Fortieth Congress, 1867-1868.  

Legacy:

There is a cenotaph for him, Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C.

Cited:

A Manual for the Government of the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (1860) Zeigler, J., page 289.

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