Carroll County GaArchives Biographies.....M'CAIN, B. J.  1843 - 
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Author: S. Emmett Lucas, Jr.
B J. M'CAIN, merchant, Temple, Carroll Co., Ga., son of William B. and 
Margaret N. (McCain) McCain, was born in Troup county in 1843. His 
grandparent, Hugh McCain, was a native of North Carolina and, was a soldier in 
the revolutionary war. His parents were born in North Carolina, came to 
Georgia and settled in Troup county in 1840, where his father cleared a farm 
and built for himself two mills, merchant and saw mill. His maternal 
grandparents, Joe and Margaret (Moore) McCain, were also born in North 
Carolina. Mr. McCain was reared on the farm and his early education was 
obtained at a country school. In 1863 he enlisted in Company F (Capt. B. F. 
Long), cavalry, with which he served six months. He then enlisted in Company F 
(Capt. George Austin), Georgia State troops, with -which he remained until the 
close of the war, and of which he was a corporal. He was in two battles, both 
fought at Coosahatchie, and at the surrender he stacked arms at Albany, Ga. 
After the war he returned to the farm, but in 1868 he attended school in 
Carrollton. The next year he worked on the farm, and the. one following he 
attended a-private school four months. In 1871 he finished his preparatory 
commercial education by attending Moore's business university at Atlanta. In 
August, 1872" he engaged as a clerk with J. C. Carter, with whom he remained 
four years. After that he entered into partnership with Gus Smythe, but at 
the' end of fifteen months he sold out to his partner and formed a new 
partnership with L. P. Barnes. Twelvemonths after he retired from this 
business, and with George: and John, McGahee and 1. Y. Sawtell organized the 
Atlanta Wild Land Company. He remained in this company ten months, and then, 
in the fall of 1878, located in Simsville, Ga., and engaged in a general 
merchandise business in which he was satisfactorily successful. In 1882 he 
closed out in Simsville and permanently settled in Temple, where 'he is now, 
and where he has built a large and profitable trade, and is a leading business 
man and citizen of that part of the county. In 1875 Mr. McCain was married to 
Miss 1;'allulah V., daughter of Maj. D. A. and Nancy W. (Collier) Cook, of 
Atlanta, by whom he has one child surviving, Ida Tallulah. They have an 
adopted son, William B. Mr. McCain is a master Mason' and he and his family 
are members of the Methodist church. He exerts a well-earned influence in the 
community and county.

Additional Comments:
From the book "Memoirs of Georgia", Historical and Biographical Sketches, 
published in 1896

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