Thanks Gene! Hopefully I'll be getting back with you very soon! Michelle ----- Original Message ----- From: Gene Philips Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 4:06 PM To: FINK-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [FINK] FINK/HOFFMAN At 08:58 AM 03/05/2001 -0600, you wrote: >Gene, >I have no parents for Rudolph. I know nothing else about his family. I just know that they lived in St. Louis for a LONG time (him and Flora). I really don't think that they had been in this country that long before his birth. I'm going to check out immigration records, but thought that I would put this out to the list first. >Michelle If you find a birth place of Lauterbach, Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany for Rudolph's parents, get back to me. The Immigrant Albert Fink and his brother Rudolph were born there. Albert on 27 Oct 1827, don't know about Rudolph. There has been several bios and historical mentions of this Albert Fink. He was a rail road engineer. Not the kind that drives the trains, but the kind that designs things. Like bridges. He designed the railroad bridge across the Ohio River at Louisville KY among other ones. He also designed and supervised the construction of the court house in Louisville Gene Phillips ============================== Add as many as 10 Good Years To Your Life If you know how to reduce these risks. http://www.thirdage.com/health/wecare/hearthealth/index.html<br clear=all><hr>Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at <a href="http://explorer.msn.com">http://explorer.msn.com</a><br></p>

At 04:33 PM 03/06/2001 -0600, you wrote: >Thanks Gene! Hopefully I'll be getting back with you very soon! >Michelle Hope so. I'm researching the Fink family for my stepchildren. They have quite a notable history. The first Albert Fink's grandson was born in Nome Alaska. He became a lawyer and formulated the rules for dog sled racing. He later moved to San Francisco. While there he was Al Capone's lawyer in his tax evasion trial. He lost that one. His son, Rudolph Fink was in the army air force in WWII. He was also an engineer. He holds 17 patents obtained while he was on active duty. One of them was for the automatic shutoff valve used in gas pumps today. Since he was in the military, he got no monetary gain from them. He retired and became a chicken farmer in Biloxi MS. He father-in-law was Horace Hickam, the man that Hickam AFB in Hawaii is named after. Rudolph's son Albert is my step kids father. He didn't do to much. He hasn't held a full time job since about 1978. He divorced their mother a year before his mother died and he got a $300,000 inheritance which he promptly blew. I married their mother 2 years ago. The kids are wonderful smart kids. Glory is 20, runs her own business. Albert is 19 and a computer student, Laili is 14 and a published poet. They got some good genes from their ancestors. I'm researching Albert the Lawyer's wife's family now. She is sort of a mystery. Laura Meigs and her 4 sisters were brought to Alaska during the Alaskan Gold by their mother. They all supposedly married well. At least Laura did. I got sidetracked on the family of Return Jonathan Meigs. He was one of the first settlers in Ohio. His son was US Senator and Governor of Ohio. He also served as Postmaster General. A grandson was an engineer that built army forts. Another was one was one of the first doctors to specialize in medicine for women and pediatrics. His son followed him into the medical field. I just can't prove that the Laura Meigs I'm looking for came from that family. I found 8 biographies of Meigs and 4 for Finks. In all of those bios, there is only one mention of a wife and that was only a note. Gene