Thomas was an elder of the Reformed Church of Germantown in abt 1875. - Lee J. Fingar
Thomas was a shoemaker and farmer as well as Town Clerk, town of Germantown, NY in 1828 and 1829. -
Fingar Family History compiled by Ruth Gloor Fingar
Found him on the 1850 Germantown, Columbia, New York census (img 15) as
Thomas Fingar age 47, farmer.
Found him on the 1860 Germantown, Columbia, New York census (img 18) as
Thos Fingar age 57, farmer.
See him on the
1870 Germantown, Columbia, NY census, age 67
In 1870 his son
Horace and his family are living with him
1880 Germantown, Columbia, New York census (img 17)
Thos. Fingar 77 farmer
Julia A. 74
Margaret E. Hover 46 daughter
Eudora 17 [granddaughter]
Frank 12 grandson
Thomas Fingar, Esq., died at his residence in the town of Germantown, on Tuesday, December 18, at the advanced age of eighty two years. Mr. Fingar was a man highly respected in the community where he resided and by all who knew him. His purity of character and modest but unfailing faithfulness to duty made him honored and beloved in the church to which he for many years belonged, and which he served for nearly half a century officially. Peaceful, uneventful lives like his leave little for the chronicler to record: but to have achieved a character like his is surely a virtue worth living for and a heritage of inestimable value to his descendants. - Obituary Hudson Evening Register Dec 10, 1883
His Will