Tipton-Marion County IN Archives Biographies.....Rains, Henry C. 1842 - 
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Author: Charles Blanchard, Editor (1883)

   HENRY C. RAINS, carpenter, contractor and lumber dealer, was born in Marion
County, Ind., October 22, 1842; he is the son of George W. Rains; was reared in
the counties of Marion and Tipton. While attending school at Cambridge City, the
war of the rebellion broke out, and he enlisted in the Nineteenth Battery, and
was mustered into service August 11, 1862; he took part in some of the hardest
fought battles of the war, being with Sherman on his campaign to the sea, and
participating in the battles of Perryville, Ky., Milton, Tenn., Hoover's Gap,
Chickamauga, Rocky Face Ridge, Ga., Chattahoochee River, sieges of Atlanta and
Savannah, also at Bentonvillie, Jonesboro and Peach Tree Creek; he was
discharged May 13,1865, with the same company in which he entered, being one of
the thirteen who returned out of 145 who went away. After his return from the
service, he entered into the saw mill and lumber business, in which he has been
engaged for fourteen years; he owns a saw mill with a capacity for cutting 5,000
feet per day; he is also a contractor, and is meeting with success; he owns 120
acres of land, in Sections 31 and 32, Cicero Township, of which forty acres are
under cultivation and well drained by tile and open ditches. He was married in
Clinton County, January, 1876, to Miss Mary Moore. They have a family of five
children, viz: Henry, Charles, Willie, Mary and Albert.

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COUNTIES OF HOWARD AND TIPTON, INDIANA.

HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL.
ILLUSTRATED.

CHARLES BLANCHARD. EDITOR.
CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO.
1883.

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