George Robert Finch
17 Jul 1864 - 1 Jun 1947
diedTempe, Arizona, USA
bornKings River, California, USA
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BiographyBusiness owner (livery); rancher; farmer.Came to Tempe c1871.
Owner of Avenue Stables on Mill Avenue.
Had a livery bus line with an office between 2nd and 3rd streets in 1917.
He was a cotton grower in 1918.
Tempe City Councilman, 1898-1900.
He served 15 years as school trustee, including
Kyrene School Dist. Governing Board, c1920-1923.
He was an active supporter of higher education, and four of his children were trained as school teachers. He was also involved with recording individual histories in the archives of the Arizona Pioneers' Historical Society (now AHS).
He owned 160 acres of the best farm land in Salt River Valley.
He was a member of the American Legion in 1928.
Lived on Mill Avenue in 1910; lived on a ranch southwest of Tempe in 1940.
OSB 16; OSB 49; OSB 50
Federal census (Tempe), 1880, 1900, 1910
BIO-Frankenberg
BIO-Finch
Old Settlers Collection, THM
TH-311
Furlong, Story of Kyrene, p. 24
Double Butte Cemetery, Tempe
Painter Scrapbook, p. 105
Tempe CD, 1898-1918
Tempe Telephone Directory, 1924, 1940
Person TypeIndividual
