Fincher, Myron G.

Myron G. Fincher was born in Corfu, New York, on November 25, 1898 to Charles Colby Fincher and Cora (Ross) Fincher. He was the youngest of five children. He graduated from high school at the age of sixteen, then worked a number of odd jobs for a year. Then, in 1916, he decided to attend Cornell University's New York State Veterinary College. Upon graduation in 1920, Fincher was offered a position in the College as an instructor in the Department of Medicine and Obstetrics. He earned a Master of Science degree, worked through the ranks, became full professor in 1938, and in 1942 was named Chair of the Department of Veterinary Medicine and Obstetrics and Director of the Ambulatory Clinic, a position he held until his retirement in 1965.

Fincher was also the director of the New York State Mastitis Research and Control program. In 1946, New York State Governor Thomas E. Dewey asked Fincher to create the program, and Cornell was given a large sum of money to implement it. Fincher set up a number of laboratories in order to regulate the mastitis research in the state. The program now operates as Quality Milk Production Services in the College's Diagnostic Laboratory.

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