Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1912 — EX-PRESIDENT OF ROAD DIES [ARTICLE]

EX-PRESIDENT OF ROAD DIES

Henry Fink, Chairman of Board of Directors of Norfolk and Western, la Dead. New York, July 16.—Henry Fink, prominent in railway circles as chairman of the board of directors of the Norfolk & Western railway and formerly president of that road, died late last night in his apartments in the Hotel Plaza. Mr. Fink, who was in his 83d year, had been ill for seven months. Born in Germany in 1831 and a student in the Polytechnic School at Darmstadt, Mr. Fink began his career of more than half a century in railroad service of this country as a rodman and transit man for the Western Maryland railroad in 1851.