Finger Family Genealogical DatabaseLast Update 12/12/2020

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Willis Fingar, of Germantown, has started to take a course in the Albany Business college. Lyle P. Fingar, a brother, is at Cornell taking a course in agriculture, and Warren, another brother, is in business in Troy. They are sons of Peter Fingar, of Germantown. - Hudson Evening Register December ?, 1913

Willis Fingar, son of Peter Fingar, of North Germantown, is in Palm Beach , Fla., for the winter. - The Columbia Republican December 15, 1917

Willis Emphraim (sic) Fingar, the son of Peter and the late Mary Lasher Fingar, was born in North Germantown on May 9th, 1896. He studied at North Germantown district school No. 1 and at Albany Business College. On November 19th, 1917 Fingar enlisted in the United States Air Service. He served at Kelly Field, Texas, U.S. Motor School, Detroit, and at Garden City, Long Island, with the 349th Aero Squadron. On May 19th, 1918, Private Fingar embarked for Liverpool. Overseas his service was continued in Netheravon, England and Gormanstown, Ireland. Fingar returned to this country on December 11th, 1918, and received his honorable discharge on December 23rd following. - Columbia County in the World War J. B. Lyon Company, Printers 1924, page 266

Mr. and Mrs. Willis Fingar who have been on a three months' trip to the south, southwest and into Mexico, have returned to their home in Germantown. - Hudson Evening Register April, 1941

Found him on the 1900 Germantown, Columbia, New York census (dist 13 img 9) age 4.

Found him on the 1905 Germantown, Columbia, New York state census (E.D.01 img 4) as Willis E. Fingar age 9.

Found him on the 1910 Germantown, Columbia, New York census (dist 12 img 9) age 13.

WWI Draft Registration

Found him on the 1920 Germantown, Columbia, New York census (dist 17 img 3) age 23.

Found him on the 1930 Germantown, Columbia, New York census (dist 15 img 24) age 33, farmer, fruit farm.

WWII Draft Registration

He was divorced in 1961 - Ruth Gloor Fingar

                                                                    | Thomas "Dames" Fingar  1802
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                                  | James Conrad Fingar  1829       | 
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                                  |                                 | Juliana "Julia" Anna S(c)hults 1806 
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| Peter Fingar 1859               |
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|                                 | Margaret Dick 1838              |
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|- Willis Ephraim Fingar   
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| Mary Augusta Lasher 1861 |
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