Tennessee Boyds
 

                         WILSON COUNTY, TN 
 

WILLIAM M. FINLEY, second son of Col. O.G. and Mary Lewis (Johnson)
Finley, was born in Lebanon, Tenn., October 11, 1816; received an
academic education, and in 1836 volunteered and served as private in the
Seminole war.  He returned home in 1837 and began studying medicine, and in the following fall entered the Cincinnati College of Medicine, but in
1838 removed to Transylvania University at Lexington, Ky., where the
title of M.D. was conferred upon him in 1839.  He traveled over the "Lone
Star State," but in 1840 located in Arkansas.  In 1842 he was elected to
the lower house of the State Legislature.  In 1843 he removed to
Clarksville, Tenn., where he practiced his profession thirty years. In
1871, owing to impaired hearing, he gave up his profession and purchased
and located on the old homestead.  He was last married to Mrs
V.C. (CONRAD) BOYD. They have two children: VIRGIE LEE  and JESSIE C. 

Source: Goodspeed's History of Wilson County, TN: Biographies Published
1886 
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