George Nelson Finch
29 Feb 1828 - 31 Mar 1908
bornBridgeport, Maine, USA
diedTempe, Arizona, USA
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BiographyFreighter; rancher; farmer.At age 20, he took a job as a ship's carpenter and sailed around the Horn and arrived in San Francisco in 1848. He joined the Gold Rush and made and lost several fortunes in the mines of California. Received a homestead patent on 160 acres near Visalia, California. He moved to Texas in 1870 and spent five years in San Sabu County. He served several years with Texas Rangers and helped subdue the Comanches. He joined a train of emigrants bound for Arizona, and arrived in Tucson with his wife and seven children on 4 Mar 1875. They settled in Florence, Arizona, where he and his oldest son, Charles, were employed at the Silver King mine. After a few years, they moved to a cattle ranch north of Tucson, and lived there until 1895, when they moved to Tempe. He bought a
40-acre farm along the railroad track on what was Frankenberg Road, now Price Road, between Apache Boulevard and Broadway Road.
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Double Butte Cemetery, Tempe
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