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JAMES D. FINK
Originally published in 1900 |
JAMES D. FINK, of Hackensack, was born in Orange County, N. Y.,
March 24. 1833. He is the son of Hamilton Fink and Delia, daughter of
James Duryea, and a grandson of Philip Fink, his paternal ancestors having
come originally from Germany. Up to about the age of thirteen he attended
school in Orange County, and then became a clerk in a grocery
store in the City of New York. He continued in this employ for eight
years. and during the next eight years he was the cashier of a New York
hotel. In 1871 Mr. Fink engaged in the express business, and since that date has been the proprietor of an express between New York City and Hackensack. Bergen County, N. J. He has long been a resident of the last mentioned place, and is a member of the Hackensack Baptist Church. He married, in 1858, Barbara W. Bogert, by whom he had two children, Harry P. and William M. Fink. She died in 1978, and in 1885 he married Kate M. Seinsoth.
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