From History of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Volume II, Publ. by The Western Historical Company 1881, Page  820

REV. F. FINDER, Pastor of the Second German Methodist Church, was born in 1840, in Germany.  He came to the United States in 1853, and settled in Dane County, Wisconsin.  His collegiate education was in Quincy, Ill.  He afterward spent one year at the Garrett Biblical Institute in Evanston, Ill. In 1868 he as ordained Deacon by Bishop SIMPSON, and in 1870, Elder, by Bishop CLARK, in Milwaukee.  He is one of the Board of Trustees of the German Wallace College in Berea, Ohio, and a contributor in the denominational press.  He has had appointments in Milwaukee, Madison, Platteville, Winona and Chicago, and began preaching in 1860.  He was married in 1868 to Miss Sophia GROEBER, formerly of Germany.  They have five children.

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