BIO: Benjamin F. FINK, Huntingdon County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley: 
Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry, 
Pennsylvania, Containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. 
Runk & Co., 1897, page 48.
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  BENJAMIN F. FINK, hardware merchant, Huntingdon, Pa., was born at Colfax, 
Union township, Huntingdon county, Pa., April 2, 1858.  He is a son of 
Daniel W. and Catherine E. (Toole) Fink.  Daniel W. Fink was born in Penn 
township, Huntingdon county, February 10, 1823, and now resides in 
Huntingdon; Mrs. Fink was born in Blair county, June 16, 1820, and died 
August 24, 1892.  Mr. Fink has spent his entire life in Huntingdon county, 
and has been until within a few years actively engaged in farming; he has 
now relinquished business, and resides in the borough of Huntingdon.  Of six 
children born to these parents, two died in childhood. The survivors are: 
Sarah J., wife of Henry Mosser, of Huntingdon; Miss Susan C., residing with 
her father; Benjamin F., and Harriet A., wife of J. M. Laird, of Huntingdon.
  Benjamin F. Fink passed his boyhood on his father's farm, acquiring his 
education in the common schools of the township, supplemented by a normal 
course at Cassville, Huntingdon county.  From 1878 until 1885 he taught 
during the winter terms in Huntingdon county, spending the summer vacations 
on the farm.  From the latter date until the spring of 1889 he remained at 
home.  In 1889 he came to Huntingdon, in order to learn tinning, roofing and 
the working of sheet iron, and continued there until his removal in 1892 to 
Orbisonia, Huntingdon county, where he went into the business of roofing, 
spouting and the sale of hardware.  In 1895, having been burned out at 
Orbisonia, Mr. Fink returned to Huntingdon, and continued to work at roofing 
and spouting, adding the hardware business in November of the same year.
  Mr. Fink is unmarried, and a member of the Presbyterian church.