James Findlay (Cincinnati mayor)
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James Findlay (brother of John Findlay and William Findlay) was born in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, on October 12, 1770. He moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1793, where he eventually became an attorney. In 1805 and 1806, He served as mayor of Cincinnati, a position he would return to in 1810 and 1811. Findlay also played an active role in the Ohio Militia, attaining the rank of brigadier general.
He was elected to the Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses and elected as a Jacksonian Democrat to the Twenty-first and Twenty-second Congresses (March 4, 1825-March 3, 1833); was not a candidate for renomination in 1832; He died in Cincinnati, Ohio, December 28, 1835; interment in Spring Grove Cemetery. [1]
The Findlay Market is built on land donated to the City of Cincinnati by the estate of General James Findlay and Jane Irwin Findlay (1769 - 1851), his wife.
