[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The extensive buildings of the " Union Stove Works " are among the first objects that meet the eye of a traveler as he lands in the village, and their productions are sent to all parts of the world. At the time of his death Mr. Finch had been for nearly forty years a resident of the village, and dur-ing all that time had been closely identified with its interests and advancement. The business he estab-lished is continued with increased facilities by his descendants, and is justly reckoned among the most extensive manufacturing enterprises of the county. In 1882 his grandson, James W. Finch, started a new foundry in Peekskill, and thus assists to continue the business which was founded by his grandfather. The old Gregory foundry on Main Street was re-fitted in 18:54, and occupied by Henry Robinson and.Fames Hawes, under the firm-name of Ilawes & Robinson, who manufactured plows and grate-frames for Ward & Goadby, of New York. After about two years they failed. Then Hawes and Abraham N. Griffin, his son-in-law, bought the foundry, and had it removed to the lower dock, where they carried on business under the firm-name of Ilawes & Griffin. It was afterwards owned by Hawes, Roake & Co., in 1841 by Roake & Clements (John C. Roake and Peter Q. Clements), and in 184.") or 184(5 by Judson H. Gilbert & Son. The fixtures were subsequently sold and taken to Stuyvesant, up the river, to fit up the foundry of Backus & Co. The old building was for some time CORTLANDT.