Brief Life History of John Joseph
John Joseph Finley was born on 28 January 1933, in Troy, Rensselaer, New York, United States as the son of Philip Finnelly and Julie. He married Dawn Atkinson on 8 September 1956, in Elko, Elko, Nevada, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He died on 25 August 2001, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States.
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- John Joseph Finley, "Find A Grave Index"
- John Finley in entry for Larry Dean In Finley, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
- John Joseph Finley, "BillionGraves Index"
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1935 · The FBI is Established
The Bureau of Investigation's name was changed to the Federal Bureau of Investigation to help citizens know that the Government is helping protect from threats both domestically and abroad.
1945 · George Albert Smith becomes the Prophet
After the death of Heber J. Grant, George Albert Smith became the 8th Prophet of this dispensation.
1951 · The Twenty-Second Amendment
Before the Twenty-second Amendment, the Presidency didn’t have a set number limit on how many times they could be elected or re-elected to the office of President of the United States. The Amendment sets that limit to two times, consecutively or not, and sets additional conditions for presidents who succeed to the unexpired terms of their predecessors.
Name Meaning
Scottish and Irish: from the Gaelic personal name Fionnlagh (Old Irish Findlaech), from fionn ‘white, fair’ (see Finn ) + laoch ‘hero’, reinforced by an Old Norse name based on finn ‘Finn’ + leikr ‘fight’ or ‘hero’. The name is common in Ireland as well as Scotland.
English: habitational name from one or more lost, unidentified or altered placenames so named, such as Philleyholme, Dorset (recorded as Finelegh in 1280) derived from Old English fīna ‘wood-pecker’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. Also a variant of Findlow, from Finlow Hill in Over Alderley, Cheshire (from Old English fīn ‘heap’ + hlāw ‘mound, hill’ meaning ‘heaped mound’).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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When he was very little he lived in a New York orphanage, he couldn't pronounce his last name, which was "Finneley" so the orphanage changed it to "Finley." Grandpa John had four siblings with him. J …
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