Margaret M. H. Finch

Margaret Maddox Hammond Finch (1878–1958) was an American archivist and genealogist. She was an employee of the United States Federal Government from 1919 until her retirement in 1949, where she was an expert in military pension records from the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812.

Biography Finch was born Margaret G. Maddox on January 6, 1878 to George Edward Maddox and Laura V. Appleby. Finch assisted researchers in securing copies of the pension records and was the main point of contact for historians, genealogists, and academics hoping to access the records in her care. In the 1940s, pension records were transferred to the National Archives and Records Administration and Margaret M. H. Finch accompanied them. Margaret stated that, working with the records, the men, "almost become living people, and their descriptions of battles in which they fought are so real you feel like you've been an actual participator."

Finch died on August 3, 1958, at the age of 80.