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Josephine Fincken
Born in Southampton, England, at the outset of World War I in August 1914, Josephine Fincken was the daughter of an English hotel worker and an American captain in the merchant mar...view moreBorn in Southampton, England, at the outset of World War I in August 1914, Josephine Fincken was the daughter of an English hotel worker and an American captain in the merchant marine. She arrived in Brooklyn at the age of ten weeks. As a girl, Jo attended P.S. 89, Girls Commercial High School (9th grade), and the Ellsworth Business School. Her church was St. Stephens on Newkirk Ave., where, later, she and her husband (also from Brooklyn) were married. For much of her adult life, she lived in Simsbury, Conn., and Savannah, Ga. Mother of four children, her lifelong passions were antiques and old colonial houses, one of which she restored; reading; hooked rugs and needlecraft; and worldwide travel. During the last ten years of her life, Jo drove a small two-door hatchback with a license plate that spelled ROAMIN.view less
Books by Josephine Fincken
What Clouds There Were Were White: Journals of a Brooklyn Girl, 1929-1930