Finney, Charles Grandison (1792–1875). Leading revivalist of the nineteenth century. Finney, who would one day be known as the “Father of Modern Revivalism,” was born in Warren, Litchfield County, Connecticut, the seventh child of farming parents, Sylvester and Rebecca (Rice) Finney. With land increasingly scarce and costly in Connecticut, in 1794 the Finneys joined with many other young families in the great westward migrations of post-Revolutionary America. Settling in Hanover (now Kirkland), Oneida