Beautiful hot day. Up 9 A.M. Played tennis with H.H., Finch, and SLIM. Dinner. Played piano. Took mother and Ruth down street. Out to John Myers in evening. Uncle Charles went. To bed 11 P.M.
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Well, I'm not sure who SLIM is, but I did finally track down Finch, who is Merlin Finch, according to a later diary entry. He is probably the Merlin Jacob Finch (recorded as Marlin G. Finch in the 1920 census) who in 1920 (and 1910) lived with his parents and siblings at 414 Mumford Street in Schenectady, about a mile from Stanford's house. He was 20 years old and was an Apprentice Patternmaker at General Electric.
A few years later Merlin married, went to college at Rutgers University where he obtained a B.S. degree, then taught high school in West Orange, NJ. He had at least two children, George and M. Ruth, and died in Sharonville, OH in 1989. That may have been where his children lived, because in 1969 he was living in Arizona, but he died in a care facility in Ohio. I tried to determine where he is buried, since we live fairly close to Sharonville, but I have had no luck so far. Interestingly, Merlin applied for the Sons of the American Revolution and was accepted in 1970.
I didn't know Stanford played the piano. I wonder if he ever played for his wife and children?
At the moment, I don't know who Uncle Charles is, but perhaps later . . .
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