The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1919-02-14
Memorial TO MIR. Fink.

At meeting OF the Bar Association
OF Carroll County, held January 18th,
Chief Judge William III. Thomas ap-
pointed Messrs James A g. Bond,
William l.. Seabrook and j. Milton
Reifsnider as committee to prepare
memorial to the late Charles f..
Fink and present the same on the
first day Of February term OF the
Circuit Court for Carroll County.
The report of the committee was pre-
pared and submitted in open Court
on Monday last by Mr.. Seabrook for
the committee.
Nearly forty years ago, Charles T.
Fink, Esquire, became member of
the Bar of Carroll County. Born in
Adams county, Pennsylvania, on the
21st of May, 1852, from 1867 to 1869,
he was a student at Pennsylvania
College, Gettysburg. Entering St.
Charles College, Ellicott City, Md, in
1869, he was graduated from that in
stitution in 1872. His attainments
as a student and the high esteem in
which he was held by that institution
( is evidenced by the fact that in 1873
he became assistant professor Of
languages In his alma mater and
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His scholarly attainments well
qualified him for influential posi-
ton i'm the educational world, but he
decided to make the practice Of law
his chosen profession and was adj
mitted to the. Bar at Ellicott City in
1873. In the same year, St. Mary's
University conferred on him the
honorary degree of Master of Arts.
He lDracticed his profession in Gettys-
Eurg, Pennsylvania, for short time,
and was admitted to practice in the
Circuit Court for Carroll County, May
18th, 1879, and since that time has
been an active, efficient and inf1uen-
tial member Of this Bar.
The tidings of his death on Janu-
ary 18th, 1919, brought deep sorrow
to the Bench and Bar of the County.
He was a man of eminent in
tellectual gifts and scholarly tastes; !;
of accurate, reflective and keenly
discriminating habit of mind. In the
Court room and without, his manners
were courteous and refined. He was
a man df positive convictions, clear
i'm his opinions and firm in his attl-
tudes, yet open to argument and
ready to yield if convinced of error,
but, when settled in his conviction OF
the right, immovable.
In the practice of his profession
both in the discharge Of his duties
as States Attorney, to which office
he was elected by the people of the
county in 1891, and in his private
practice he was faithful and conscien-
tious. In the preparation Of his
cases, he was patient, careful, pains
taking and thorough, and i'm their
presentation, before court and jury,
his addresses were models Of ex-
haustive analysis, cOgent reasoning
and convincing argument, plain
simple, direct and straightforward
without dependency upon the graces
of rhetoric or oratOry.
Leading characteristics of his life
were affection for his family and de-
votion to his country whose interests
we're ever upon his heart, upon his
tongue and in his prayers and in his
service. Cheerfully he gave his con-
sent to the enlistment of three of his
sons in his country's armies. Though
i'm falling health and suffering bodily
weakness, weariness and pain, as an
associate member of the legal ad-
visory board of the county, he per-
formed his full share of the arduous
duties of the recent selective service.
In testimony of the high esteem in
which they held their associate, OF
their sense of profound personal
loss, and of their sincere and heart
felt sympathy for his children, the
Committee and Bar request that this
memorial tribute be spread upon the
record of proceedings of this Court,
a cdDy thereof sent to his family, and
copies furnished the newspapers of
Westminster for publication.
4, With addresses by members. of the
Bar and the Court, the memorial
tribute was adopted and Court was
adjourned in honor Of the deceased.