[2] In 1895, the family moved to nearby Nanticoke, where Fine received his early education at local public schools.

[3] He milked cows and plowed fields on a coal company farm as a young boy, and he later reported on local community news for the Wilkes-Barre Record as a teenager.

[4] On January 3, 1927, Governor Gifford Pinchot appointed Fine to fill a vacancy in the Court of Common Pleas of Luzerne County.

[4] Governor James H. Duff appointed him to fill a vacancy on the Pennsylvania Superior Court on July 15, 1947.

[4] In the general election, he narrowly defeated Democrat Richardson Dilworth, who would later become the mayor of Philadelphia, by 86,000 votes.

The Newport Excavation Co. allegedly paid for improvements on his farm along with salaries to two of his farmhands considered taxable income.