Dr. William E. Finlayson has a long and distinguished history of service in the City of Milwaukee that dates to his arrival in the city in 1958. Affectionately called the “baby doctor”, it’s estimated that he’s delivered roughly 10,000 children and has touched countless lives in the community both personally and professionally. Dr. Finlayson served at the University of Wisconsin and the Medical College of Wisconsin. While at the Medical College, he was instrumental in increasing the diversity of the student body when he served on the admission committee.
Medicine was far from his only interest. Dr. Finlayson was instrumental in the founding of North Milwaukee State Bank, the first African American bank in Wisconsin. Dr. Finlayson’s social conscience prompted him to push for the establishment of a state-of-the-art YMCA facility near Northside in the mid-1960s. Around that same time, as president of the Delta Chi Lambda alumni chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc, he spearheaded an effort to bring his former classmate, fraternity brother, and friend, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to Milwaukee.
Dr. Finlayson received Milwaukee’s 2019 Living Legend Award and had part of North 5th Street named after him.
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