Bios: JOHN W. CAIN: Lawrence County, Pennsylvania

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  Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens
  Lawrence County Pennsylvania
  Biographical Publishing Company, Buffalo, N.Y., 1897
  
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    JOHN W. CAIN,
    
    [p. 656] conductor on the Pennsylvania R. R., residing at 366 State Street,
  New Castle, was born in St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 2, 1859, where he lived the first
  two years of his life. His grandfather, John Cain, came to America from
  Ireland in 1827, and settled in Sugar Grove, Warren Co., Pa., where he died
  in 1888, aged eighty-two Years; he was engaged in agricultural pursuits
  during the latter years of his life. His son, Frederick Cain, came with him
  to this country in 1827, and followed mining as an occupation; he was killed
  in a mine accident in the west Jan. 10, 1861. He married Jane Johnson, a
  sister of George W. Johnson, one of the leading manufacturers and limestone
  dealers in the county, whose sketch appears on another page of this volume.
  The grandfather of our subject's mother, John Johnson, Sr., was a prosperous
  farmer of Pennsylvania, of which State he was a native. Her father, John
  Johnson, Jr., was born and raised on the homestead in Mercer County, and
  followed farming and mining for a livelihood. Of his seven children, Jane was
  the eldest, and George W. the next in order of birth. After her husband's
  death our subject's mother returned to Pennsylvania from St. Louis, and lived
  four years at Hoytdale, where she married Frank Robinson. From there the
  family moved to West Middlesex, where our subject, who was the elder child
  born to his parents, the younger being his sister, Myrtle W., lived until
  seventeen years of age, attending the schools of that place. He then learned
  the blacksmiths trade, at which he worked two years, and then came to New
  Castle, where he worked one year for his uncle, George W. Johnson, in his
  quarries. Throughout the following year, he was fireman on the quarry
  locomotive. About this time John W. Cain took a business trip to the west to
  his native city and to Belleville, Iowa, and on his return to New Castle
  worked for the J. P. Witherow Co. two years in their boiler works. He then
  secured employment as brakeman on the Pennsylvania Co.'s lines, and in one
  year was advanced to the post of conductor, which he held three years. Since
  August, 1891, he has been yard conductor and car inspector for the same
  company.
    
    He was joined in marriage Feb. 2, 1886, in New Castle, to Sarah Hammond,
  daughter of James and Nancy (Nealey) Hammond; her father was born in
  Allegheny Co., Pa., at Woods Run, near Pittsburg, and followed the occupation
  of a farmer, living to be 75 or 76 years of age. He was a veteran of the late
  war, and served in Co. I, 140th Reg. Pa. Vol. Inf., taking part in the
  battles of Bull Run and Gettysburg. Mrs. Cain is a sister of Harvey C.
  Hammond, a yard conductor on the Pennsylvania R. R., whose personal history
  may be found elsewhere in this volume. Our subject and wife attend the M. E.
  Church. Mr. Cain is a Democrat in his political attachments, and is a member
  of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen.