BIO: William H. Kain, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, historical editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, York Borough, Pg 26-27

WILLIAM H. KAIN was born January 4, 1848, in West Manchester Township.  At the 
age of sixteen he began teaching school, and at nineteen entered Pennsylvania 
College at Gettysburg, and graduated four years later.  At the age of twenty-
three he was appointed county superintendent to fill the unexpired term of 
Stephen G. Boyd.  This occurred in 1871.  He was elected in 1872, and re-elected 
in 1875, serving in all about seven years.  In the year 1876 he prepared for the 
State Department a history of the progress of education in York County.  Mr. 
Kain had a keen zest for learning, and was untiring in the pursuit of knowledge.  
Though firm in his disposition, he was free from dogmatism and pedantry.  Having 
a predilection for the practice of law, he was admitted to the bar in 1878, had 
acquired a lucrative practice, and obtained prominence in his profession, when 
his career was cut short by premature death on February 8, 1883.  He was a man 
of indefatigable energy in whatever he undertook.