EDWARD A. FINK. - Edward A. Fink is the owner and editor of the Pleasant Plains Weekly Press. He was born in this town September 14, 1879, and is a son of G. W. Fink, who is mentioned above. At the usual age he entered the public schools and he supplemented his early advantages by several years' study in Springfield. He pursued the high school course there, later took up the study of law and for one year was a student in the law department of the State University at Ann Arbor, Michigan, but, deciding to abandon the legal profession to enter the journalistic field, he became connected with the newspaper interests of Pleasant Plains. He started the Weekly Press about 1898 and has since conducted it. This is a clean, bright sheet, devoted to general and local news and he has secured a good circulation and large advertising patronage. His editorials are clear and concise and while setting forth his views on many of the leading questions of the day he is never bitterly aggressive in denouncing those who differ from him in opinions.

In November, 1898, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Fink and Miss Josephine E. Carter, a native of Sangamon county, reared and educated here. Her father, Robert Carter, located at an early day within the borders of Sangamon county, coming with his father's family from Tennessee. He is now deceased. Mr. Fink is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America and he and his estimable wife are highly esteemed in this county, the hospitality of the best homes being extended to them, while their own home is noted for its pleasant social functions.