Bio: Cain, William A. (1881)

 
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Surnames: Cain, Davids

----Source: History of Northern Wis. (Wood County, Wis.) 1881, page 1211

WILLIAM A. CAIN, architect and builder, Marshfield. Came to Marshfield in August 1880, from Arcadia, Trempealeau Co. He was born in Ornville, Piscataquis Co., Me., March 19, 1844. His father, William F. Cain, moved, in 1855, to Waupaca Co., Wis., where he bought a farm, on which he still resides. William A. enlisted in Co. B, 38th Wis. V. I., Feb. 23, 1864, and received his discharge in November, 1865. He was in the army of the Potomac, and was in every battle, from that of Spottsylvania until the close of the war. After the war, he learned the carpenter's trade at Oshkosh, and has worked at it ever since, but principally as architect and builder. He was married, Nov. 28, 1868, to Miss Delia S. Davids, of Amherst, Wis. She was born in West Poultney, Vt., Nov. 2, 1847. He has built nearly all the depots on the G. B. & M. R. R. Has been Justice of the Peace at Arcadia, and is at present holding that office in Marshfield, Wis.