MCCAIN, THOMAS HART BENTON: 1839-1898.
T. H. B. McCain , son of the Rev. Hugh B. McCain, was born on a farm near Frankfort, Ind., on Nov. 24, 1839. He attended local schools, with an additional year or two at the Thorntown (Ind.) Academy.
He began work in a Frankfort printing office in his twelfth year, while attending school, and, except for four years in the Union Army during the Civil War, spent his entire life in the printing and publishing business.
After the war he married Miss Salome Snow, came to Crawfordsville, Ind., and purchased an interest in the CRAWFORDSVILLE JOURNAL on Apr. 16, 1868. Within the next few years he acquired full possession of the paper. He died on May 1, 1898.
Information supplied by the McCain family.
- The Eighty-Sixth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry
…. (withBarnes and Carnahan). Crawfordsville, Ind., 1895.
