His baptism record shows him as
Phillip R. Finger
He is listed on his WWI draft registration card as
Phillip W. R. Fingar and is single.
Found him on the 1900 Germantown, Columbia, New York census (dist 13 img 34) as
Philip W. R. Fingar age 6.
Found him on the 1920 Germantown, Columbia, New York census (dist 18 img 15) as
Philip Fingar age 27, single, living at home. Labor, farm.
Found him on the 1930 Germantown, Columbia, New York census (dist 15 img 2) as
Philip W. Fingar age 37, farmer.
Philip William Fingar died at Sharon Hospital Tuesday night, Dec. 30th where he had been a patient for four days. He had been suffering a heart condition the past five weeks.
Mr. Fingar was born in Germantown Oct. 24, 1892, a son of Philip William Fingar, and Harriet Rockefeller. He conducted a dairy farm in Ancramdale for 23 years. He was a member of Pine Plains Grange, the Pine Plains Presbyterian church a charter member of the Exempt Fire Company of Germantown and a former member of the Dutch Reformed church at Germantown.
His wife, the former Nina Stickle, survives a son, Lyndon, and a granddaughter Victoria also a sister, Miss Ethel Fingar of Germantown. Funeral services will be held Friday at 2 p. m. from the Dutch Reformed church at Germantown, with Rev. John Gebhard of that church, and the Rev. Charles M. Moser, of the Pine Plains Presbyterian church, officiating. Burial will be in Germantown.
The Register-Herald January 1, 1953