Finley Fitch Ellingwood

What Cudge wrote about him in Cudge.

1. Finley Fitch, four in November 1894, was nicknamed Wink for life, after the game of tiddlywinks.

   Finley Fitch, whose lifetime nickname was Wink, who was four on November 26, 1894.

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2. In the family's Round Robin letters Wink recalled helping carry the furniture through the mud when the family moved out to Evanston, though by Cudge's reckoning he was only 18 months old.

   Wink writes in one of his Round Robin letters that he recalls helping do this, but according to my computation he was only 18 months old at that time.

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3. As boys Wink and Cudge had a real fight in the alley while the ragman tried to take bets; Wink won, but was punished for picking on his younger brother.

   As I recall it Wink won the technical victory of the fight, but mother found out about it and he had to go home and take punishment for it, for picking on his younger brother.

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4. Wink began going with Katherine Rose, whose family had joined their church, while Cudge went with her sister Jennie.

   Wink soon took a liking to Katherine, and she and he began to go together.

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5. When Cudge's daughter Joyce went to modelling school in New York, Wink and Katherine, then in Plainfield, New Jersey, took her under their wing.

   Fortunately, of course, my brother, Wink, was in Plainfield, New Jersey, and Wink and Katherine very generously offered to supervise Joyce's entrance into the life of the city.

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6. On a family trip east Cudge and his children spent about three days with Wink and Ka at Arlington, Vermont.

   We drove up through Maine and New Hampshire and over into Vermont to see Wink and Ka. They and Chuck met us at some town--it may have been Brattleboro.

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7. Wink, at Arlington, Vermont, was in on Cudge's mock newspaper advertisement aimed at Bill Lee, and was the one who gave the joke away.

   finally Joyce telephoned Wink down at Arlington, Vermont, who had sent one and Wink told them all about it.

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8. When the four brothers agreed in June 1923 to support their widowed mother, Wink was made treasurer, to collect their shares and pass them to her, and to raise the shares if the money fell short.

   That Wink shall be the comptroller of the treasury and that payments shall be made to him and by him to Mother.

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