Autobiography of Rev. James B. Finley; or, Pioneer life in the West. Ed. by W. P. Strickland, D. D

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“Mr. Finley was born in North Carolina, 1781, died at Eaton, Ohio, 1857. He entered the Ohio M. E. conference in 1809; was missionary to the Wyandot Indians from 1821 to 1827; Chaplain of the Ohio penitentiary in 1845-9, and subsequently connected with the Methodist Church in Cincinnati. In this volume, the author recounts the principal events of his itinerant life, including, also, many of the tragical events of border warfare as narrated to him by the survivors.” - Peter G. Thomson, A Bibliography of the State of Ohio (1880)