Finnegan, Hugh Montgomery
In 1908, Hugh Finnegan was “up from Hedley” and at his ranch at Five-Mile. He was living in Princeton in 1916 and had travelled to Hedley to have horses examined by Dr. Thompson.
He was a carpenter by trade who worked for the Seamen’s when Katherine was about three or four years old. Presumably an Irishman who entertained the children with stories, such as: They shouldn’t bite their fingernails or they would grow horns. And as he had a couple of wens on his head, claiming they were horns which started to grow when he was a boy because he bit his fingernails, the children believed him. Also told of spending winters in Mexico.
References:
Katherine Seaman (1907-1989); Similkameen Star, May 8, 1908, page 2; Hedley Gazette, June 18, 1916, page 2