Memorial At Rittenhouse Square
Though Finley's body was originally buried at the 2d Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia, when the building at Arch and Cherry Sts. was torn down his body was moved, and his original tombstone was relocated and could as of 1988 be found imbedded in the wall of a lobby of a building on the North side of Rittenhouse Square.
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