Finney, Charles

G., clergyman and educator, born in Conn., 1792. He abandoned law for the pulpit, was president of Oberlin College from 1852-66. He was a noted revivalist, and author of several volumes of lectures, . Died in 1875. Sur Fin'ney, in Kansas , a S. W. co.; area , 864 sq. m. face , undulating prairie; soil , very fertile under the system of irrigating canals in operation. A fine stock country. Products, wheat, oats, sweet and Irish potatoes, alfalfa, wool and live stock. Cap . Garden City. Pop . (1895) 3,553.