Surnames: Finlay, Haney, Gailey, Hoffman
Dr Robert G Finlay, an able young physician of East Liberty, was born May 18, 1858, near Perryopolis, Perry township, Fayette county, Penna, and is a son of George Finlay and Ruth Haney Finlay.His father, George Finlay, was born in Ireland, came to the United States when about twenty five years of age, located in Elizabeth, Allegheny county, Penna, where he worked at shoemaking for a number of years and afterwards farmed for about thirty years.
He was married twice: the first time to Mary Gailey, daughter of Archibald Gailey, a native of Fayette county; the second time to Ruth Ann Haney in 1857. To this last union were born five children. He died in Pittsburgh, January 29, 1886. His father died in Ireland and his mother came to America in 1840, to Quebec, Canada, thence to Elizabeth, Penna.
Robert G Finlay was educated in the common schools and in the academy at Uniontown. He read medicine in the office of Dr A P Bowie of the same place, began his medical studies in the winter of 1878-79, and began his first course of lectures in the fall of 1879 at the Homeopathic Hospital College, in Cleveland, Ohio, where he graduated March 9, 1881.
In August, 1881, he located in McKeesport, Allegheny county, remained about one year; from there he located at New Wilmington, Lawrence county, where he remained till September, 1883. In 1883 he removed to Scottdale, Westmoreland county, there practiced successfully until the spring of
1884; thence to Minneapolis, Minnesota; was there til May 1, 1889, when he came to East Liberty where he is at present engaged in his practice.Mrs Dr R G Finlay died in Minneapolis, Minnesota, February, 1888. He was again married (error?) October 25, 1883, at Pittsburgh, to Miss Maggie M Hoffman of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, daughter of J H and Sarah Hoffman of that place.