Bios: DR. LEANDER F. 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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    DR. LEANDER F. CAIN,
    
    [p. 641] the able editor and proprietor of the Ellwood Motor, an
  eight-page, six-column weekly paper of Ellwood City, and one of the most
  popular of the excellent body of citizens, who have made that thriving little
  city what it is to-day, was born in Caldwell, Marion Co., Ohio, July 21, 1856.
  Versatility and readiness to adapt himself to the most trying situations seem
  to be leading characteristics in the make-up of our subject. In him may be
  found the representative of three leading professionslaw, medicine and
  journalismin each of which he has achieved a reputation for thorough,
  earnest and reliable work. As a journalist his history since coming to
  Ellwood City in 1895 is inseparably linked with the city of his choice.
    
    His father, James Cain, was a schoolteacher in Marion County for forty
  years, and then engaged in mercantile life for ten years in Enoch, Ohio,
  after which he bought a farm and spent the remainder of his years near to
  Nature's heart, dying at the age of seventy-four.
    
    The subject of this writing attended the common schools until he was
  prepared for college, and finished his collegiate course in 1879. He taught
  school for a while, but did not inherit his father's taste for instructing
  the young, so he entered the law office of Semtis & Grubbs in Indiana, where
  he studied law until his admittance to the bar in 1881. He practiced in his
  profession, and met with some difficult cases, which he handled with credit
  to himself, but more and more he felt impelled to study medicine, so he
  became a student in the Medical College at Louisville, Kentucky, from which
  institution he was graduated as a physician and surgeon in 1885. For six
  years previous to his coming to Ellwood City, he was practicing law in
  Hutchinson, Kansas; upon becoming a citizen of Wayne township's metropolis,
  he purchased the Motor, a weekly paper, that was established in 1893 by A. L.
  Weighe, who was succeeded as editor and proprietor by John Mellon, the
  immediate predecessor of Dr. Cain. The present proprietor has made it his aim
  to give the people of the vicinity and of neighboring counties a readable,
  newsy sheet, which will outline the daily occurrences of the preceding week,
  furnish local items of interest, and provide bright, clean literature for the
  home and fireside. The circulation of the paper has shown the effect that his
  stimulus had upon it by mounting in two years from 475 to 1,000 copies; the
  size of the paper has been enlarged to meet the demands from a five-column
  sheet to a six-column paper. The Motor advocates the best of Republican
  doctrines, and is conducted in a spirited manner, as Dr. Cain had
  considerable experience in political life, and needs no instruction how to
  wield his lance, or where to direct the attack. He is a fluent, ready
  speaker, a gift that was perfected by his experience at the bar, and stumped
  Western Pennsylvania and Ohio in the exciting campaign of 1896, proving of
  great assistance to the party.
    
    Dr. Cain has an extensive membership in fraternal brotherhoods. He belongs
  to the Legion of Honor, Protected Home Circle, and the Junior Order of United
  American Mechanics. In Indiana he became a Mason. He is a member of the I. O.
  O. F., and of the Knights of Pythias, in each of which orders he is a Past
  Grand. Dr. Cain was united in the holy bonds of matrimony with Quintella J.
  Wiley, daughter of Samuel Wiley of Sharon, Ohio, and Dr. and Mrs. Cain are
  the proud and happy parents of five children. Carl D. is his father's
  assistant in the Motor office; Wiley M. lived for the brief space of nineteen
  months to gladden the home; James C. is a clerk in the office of the Hartman
  Manufacturing Co. of Ellwood City; Wilbur G. passed away at the age of nine
  months; and Josephine B., who is cherished as the only daughter.