In addition to be so well respected, Atticus has deep family roots in Maycomb County. In Scout's recitation of family history in the novel's first chapter, she tells of their ancestor, Simon Finch, who settled Finch's Landing well before the Civil War, so far before the Civil War in the 1860s that Simon didn't live to see it. The Finch family has been in Maycomb County before there was a Maycomb County. Scout says that Atticus was "Maycomb County born and bred." He knew "his people" very well, she says, and "they knew him." Scout also points out that "Atticus was related by blood or marriage to nearly every family in the town."
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