Sherman Finch
Judge Sherman Finch came to Delaware as a lawyer in the year 1832, having been born in the State of Connecticut. He was a graduate of Yale College. He was a good scholar and had been a professor in Latin in Kenyon College, at Gambier, Ohio. He was a man of strong intellectual powers and was a good logician. He was a distinguished lawyer, especially in the principles of equity. He was elected judge of the Court of Common Pleas in the first subdivision of the Sixth District, from Delaware County and served from February, 1857. to February, 1862. During his official term he moved to Mt. Vernon in Knox County, which is in the same subdivision as Delaware. At the end of his judicial term he moved to St Paul, Minnesota, where he died in the year 1873. Sherman Finch left many monuments of his presence and residence in Delaware County, especially upon the court and deed records of the county, having owned at various times numerous tracts of land. He laid out an addition to the town on the east side of the river, which is known as Finch and Lamb's addition to Delaware.
From 20th Century History of Delaware County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens, Edited and compiled by James R. Lytle, Delaware, Ohio, Biographical Publishing Co., Chicago, 1908