In my last Wright family post I wrote of Frederick Finck and wife Marie Antoinette. I haven't had much success with Antoinette, as variations of her last name have come up. I first came up with Maujer, as listed on a child's marriage license. Another researcher believes it is Meagher with her parents Antan Meagher (1800-?) & Katherine Vongurus of Darmstadt, Germany.
They had seven children who grew up at the Eldridge St. flat and each has an interesting story to tell. Last month I wrote about Frederick Finck Jr. (1858-1889) and his apparent suicide by jumping from a cruise ship. The next sibling is George D. Finck (1860-1917). A search of the NY Times archives shows that he was a very successful lawyer and real estate investor. Many of his notable deals were in the $250k-$500k range, which was a great amount of money in the late 1800's. One of his larger purchases involved several lots on East 19th Street and Fourth Ave. (later renamed as Park Avenue South). George and his partners developed the street, including the building where several of his family members would reside for several years, including where my grandfather George Wright, was born, 138 E. 19 St. (check out the cream colored building here on google street view). He also bought several buildings on West 86 & 87 St and Riverside Drive and was instrumental in developing them to an upscale area.
On June 23, 1892, George married a British woman named Louisa Adrianna Cameron (1860-?). Born in London, she was the daughter of land owners in British Guiana (now the independent nation Guyana) and resided there with her first husband. She is mentioned in the social pages numerous times. They had a daughter Gloria Finck (1899-1982) and they lived in different upper West Side apartments with servants over the years. Gloria married an interior designer named William Chauncey Sloan (1887-?) on July 26, 1937 and they lived in Manhattan until her death. I have not found any children for them.
Next of the siblings is Henry Ulrich Finck (1862-1898). The 1880 census lists Henry as a designer and he relocated to Chicago at some point. He met Margaret Alice Eagle (1864-1948) and they were married in September 1892. They moved to Pasadena, CA, that year and had their first child Frederick Eagle Finck (1893-1970). In 1895 Elizabeth Eagle Finck (1895-?) was born and in 1897, their last child, Margaret Finck (1897-1993) was born. The next year Henry died out in California and the family moved back east, living for a while on Staten Island. They are also listed on a couple of censuses at 189 Claremont Ave in upper Manhattan.
Their son Frederick worked for Westinghouse Electric prior to getting married in 1922 to Clara Aloysia Jones in Oyster Bay, LI. By 1930, they were living in the Los Angeles area where he died in 1970. Clara, originally from Lithonia, GA, died in Montrose, CA. in 1993. They had two daughters Clara Lousie Finck (1924-2010) and Elizabeth E. Finck (1926). Clara married Raymond Ramsower and I think they had two children, Steven (1953) and Michelle (1958) who are still living in California.
Henry and Margaret's other children: Elizabeth was a clerk at a publishing company in 1920 and was listed as living with her mother at Claremont Ave in the 1930 census. She married James Morrow in 1963 at 68 years of age. Her sister, Margaret, was listed in the 1920 census as a clerk at an advertising company. She married James Winslow McGovern (1891-?) in 1922 and they moved to Jackson Heights. She died in NY in 1993 at 96 years old. I don't know if they ever had any children.
Next post continues with the Finck descendants....
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