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James Cain (1855 - aft. 1910)

James Cain
Born in Kirksville, Adair, Missouri, United Statesmap
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[children unknown]
Died after after age 55 in Oregon, United Statesmap
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Biography

James was a younger child of Captain Mathias Tice Cain and Elizabeth Ivie.

He is enumerated in the 1860 Census for Rock Creek Township, Jefferson, Kansas Territory.[1]

His father disappeared during the battle of Kirksville, 6 August 1862.

His mother came to Oregon and died there in 1865.

In 1870 James was in Sheridan, Yamhill, Oregon, aged 16, a farm laborer in the household of Alfred and Mary Wilson, natives of Missouri.[2]

In 1880 James is found as a day laborer in Lafayette, Yamhill County, Oregon, aged 24 and single.[3]

In 1910 he was a laborer, single, age 54, b MO, boarding in Portland.[4]

Sources

  1. "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M66Q-JTY : 18 February 2021), James Cain in entry for Mathias Cain, 1860.
  2. "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFDM-SYK : 29 May 2021), James Cain in entry for Alfred Wilson, 1870.
  3. "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNC5-1MQ : 20 February 2021), James Cain in household of Daniel Johnson, Lafayette, Yamhill, Oregon, United States; citing enumeration district ED 134, sheet 422D, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,255,084.
  4. "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MLYV-SCR : accessed 3 July 2021), Jas W Cain in household of J C Clark, Portland Ward 4, Multnomah, Oregon, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 153, sheet 11B, family 59, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1286; FHL microfilm 1,375,299.




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