My mother, as all mothers have, and as all mothers will - God bless her and may God bless them all - forecasted for me a future such as only a mother's love and a mother's ambition could picture. She associated me with King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table. She named me "Arthur". My father with less of the chivalry of my mother's English ancestry and more of the clannish spirit of his Scotch-Irish ancestry named me after one of the officers of the Southern Confederacy who was shot by my father's side and died in my father's arms. He was an Irishman by the name of Finn, a grand soldier and a true and devoted friend, and so I was named "Arthur Finn" and to my friends those who know me well I am Finn Bowen.