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 FINE

FINKEL

in Cincinnati in 1867-68: pastor of the Central Presbyterian church, Newark, N.J., 180S(-89, and stated supply, rerrineville, N.J., 1890-93. He died at Peninevide, N.J., June 14, 1898.

FINE, John, representative, was born in New York city, Aug. 26, 1794. He was graduated from Columbia in 1809 and was admitted to the bar in 1815, practising at Ogdensburg, N.Y. He was treasurer of St. Lawrence county, N.Y., 1831-33; county judge, 1824-:39 and 1844-47. He was a Democratic representative in the 36th con- gress, 1839-41, and was state senator, 1848-50. Hamilton conferred on him the degree of LL.D. in 1850. He published Li-cturas on Law (1852). He died in Ogdensburg, N.Y., Jan. 4, 1867.

FINK, Albert, engineer, was born in Lauter- bach, Germany, Oct. 37, 1837. He was gradii- ated at the Darmstadt polytechnic in 1848 as an architect and immigrated to America in 1849. He was emyiloyed as draughtsman in the con- struction department of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, subsequently sui^erinteuding the build- ing, designing and constructing of iron bridges and tunnels, the road between the Monongahela river and Parkersburg being largely the result of his engineering skill, its bridges being con- structed on the plan of the Fink truss. He was also consulting engineer of the Norfolk & Peters- burg railroad. He was made assistant to Chief Engineer McLeod of the Lomsville & Nashville road in 1857, and he built the great bridge over the Ohio at Louisville, Ky. During the civil war he was employed by the government as chief engineer and superintendent of construction and repair on the roads used by the Federal armj' in its movements, and his expenditures during the time aggregated §620,000. In 1865 he was made general manager of the Louisville & Nashville railway, and in 1870 was elected vice-president. He created the Southern railway and steamship association, a co-operative transportation trust, an I became its general commissioner in October, 1875. He was made commissioner of a pool of the west-bound traffic, made up by the four great trunk lines, which completely revolutionized the traffic management of American railways. Ha resigned in 3888. He was elected president of the American society of civil engineers in 1890. n- die 1 at Sing Sing, N.Y., April 3, 1897.

FINK, Louis Mary, R.C. bishop, was born in Ti-ifsterberg, Bavaria, and was bajjlized in 1834. Ha was named Michael and received bis classical training at the gymnasium and Latin school of Ritisbon. He immigrated to America in 1852, where he joined the order of St. Benedict. He made his profession in the abbey of St. Vincent, B^atty, Pa., taking the religious name Louis Mary. Jan. 6, 18.54. He completed bis studies at the seminary in 1857 and was ordained a priest

May 28, 1857, by Bishoi) Young of Erie, Pa. His first parishes were Belief ontaine. Pa., and New- ark, N.J. He then went to Covington, Ky., where he built St. Benedict's church and estab- lished St. Joseph's priory. He afterward became pastor of St. Joseph's church, Chicago, 111., and when the congregation outgrew the church he built a larger one and established schools, chapels and missions. He afterward became prior of the Benedictine monastery, Atchi.sou, Kan., and vicar-general of the vicarate apostolic of Kansas. He was consecrated bishop of Eucarpia and vicar- apostolic of Kansas, June 11, 1871; and May 23, 1877, was transferred to tlie newly erected see of Leavenworth, Kan. On May 29, 1891, the name of the see was changed to Kansas City, Kan., and by Papal Bull, issued March 5, 1897, the name was changed back to the diocese of Leaven- worth to avoid confusion with the diocese of Kan- sas City, Mo.^

FINKEL, Benjamin Franklin, mathematician, was born near East Ringgold, Fairfield county, Ohio, July 5, 1865 ; son of Jolui Philip and Louisa Frederica (Stickle) Finkel; and grandson of George and Sarah (Grose) Finkel. The Finkels were English and settled in South Carolina about the middle of the 18th century. His mother was born in Germany and emigrated to America in 1853. He was graduated at the Ohio normal univer- sity, B. Sc, in 1888, and A.M. in 1893. He worked his waj- through the course in five years, being obliged to teach a considerable portion of the time in country schools to meet his expenses. He was teacher and super- intendent of village schools in Ohio. 1884-92; and professor of mathe- matics in Kidder institute. Mo., 1892-95. In 1895 he was given a scholarship in the University of Chicago, and also in Yale university. He accej^ed the one from Chicago, and took up work in math- ematics leading to the degree of Ph.D. He re- signed his scholarship in June, 1895, on being elected to the chair of mathematics and physics in Drury college, Springfield, Mo., and subse- quently did one year's work in mathematics at the Universit}' of Chicago. He was elected a member of the American mathematical society in June, 1891, and of the London matheniatical .society in April. lS9fl. In January. 1894, he