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William L. Finley : ウィキペディア英語版 | William L. Finley
William Lovell Finley (August 9, 1876 - June 29, 1953) was an American wildlife photographer and conservationist from Southern California.〔Worth Mathewson. ''William L. Finley: Pioneer Wildlife Photographer''. Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, Oregon, 1987〕 The William L. Finley National Wildlife Refuge was named in his honor.〔(William L. Finley (1876-1953), The Oregon Encyclopedia )〕 ==Family== He was born on August 9, 1876 in Santa Clara, California to John Pettus Finley and Nancy Catherine Rucker. Finley's parents went west by covered wagon in 1852 from Saline County, Missouri to Santa Clara, California when they were just small children. Finley's middle name, Lovell, was the name of another of the families that went west with the Finleys and Ruckers.〔Carmin J. Finley, "John Finley of Montgomery/Wythe County, Virginia; Additional Children Identified", ''Virginia Genealogist'' 1990-1991; Pg 292.〕 Finley's great grandfather was Asa Finley, the first elected judge of Arrow Rock in Saline County,〔Saline County, Missouri Court Records〕 and his uncle was William Asa Finley, the first president of Oregon State University (then named Corvallis College).〔(OSU Archives - President's Gallery - W.A. Finley )〕 Finley married, and he and his wife Irene traveled together on expeditions in the Bearing Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, and mountainous parts of North America. They had two children, a son and a daughter.〔
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