Finney, Walter S.

Submitted by Mike Miller

Walter S. Finney, New Orleans, La., is a young lawyer admirably adapted to the honorable prosecution of this most exalted of professions, and possesses that easy and interested grace of manner not easily acquired by the majority. He was born in New Orleans on the 9th of January, 1856, and his father, Hon. John Finney, was a native Virginian and a lawyer by profession also. The elder Finney served one term in the Louisiana legislature and died in 1880. His wife, and the mother of our subject, Jouetta Davis, was born in the Bluegrass region of Kentucky, and died in 1886. Walter S. Finney received his collegiate education in the Washington and Lee university, in which he spent one year, and then returned to New Orleans, where, at the age of sixteen years, he took up the study of law. In 1876 he entered the law department of the University of Louisiana and graduated from that institution the following year. He was shortly afterward admitted to the bar and at once began the practice of his profession in New Orleans, where he has since continued and of which city he is now a promising young lawyer. He has been associated in the law practice with Mr. Henry C. Miller since 1880, and since that year Mr. Finney has been the counsel of the New Orleans Canal & Banking company. He is a democrat in politics, and is a member of the Delta Psi fraternity. He is a member of the Chess, Checker and Whist club of New Orleans. Mr. Finney took an active part in the reform campaign of 1888. He is a member of the New Orleans Law association, and is one of the rising young lawyers of New Orleans. He was married on the 14th of February, 1887, to Miss Annie Geddings Hardy, of Asheville, N. C.

Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, (vol. 1), pp. 414-415. Published by the Goodspeed Publishing Company, Chicago, 1892.