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Name
Coenrad Lansing Finger   #2351
 Suffix
 Sex
M
 Family Line
JO1700
Born
12 Oct 1824
 Place
Red Hook, Dutchess, New York
Source
Died
3 Oct 1866
 Place
At sea - sinking of Evening Star
Source
     approx. age 42


Buried

Father
Adam Finger 1794-1871   #721
Mother
Jane Lasher 1806-1890    #732

Spouse
Catherine M. Unknown 1824-   #762
 Date
 Place
 Source
  1  Jane A. Finger May 1850
  2  Charles L. Finger 1856

Spouse 2
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Spouse 3
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He died at age 42 when the steamship Evening Star sank during a hurricane off the coast of Georgia, 185 miles east of Tybee. His brother Robert L. Finger was chief engineer and survived the sinking.

He was listed as Lansing Finger first assistant engineer. The ship was en route from New York to New Orleans. - read compiled newspaper articles.

Coenrad - bapt record Claverack church recs vol 4 page 2

Found him on the 1850 Albany Ward 4, Albany, New York census (img 36) as Alanson Finger age 25, engineer. 


                                                                    | MICHAEL FINGER  1728
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                                  | Jacob M. Finger  1769           | 
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                                  |                                 | MARGARETHA MOSSER 1727 
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| Adam Finger 1794                |
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|                                 | Margaret Schaeffer 1769         |
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|- Coenrad Lansing Finger   
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|                                 | Coenradt "Conrad" Lasher  1775  |   
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| Jane Lasher 1806                |
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                                  | Maria Saulpaugh                 |
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