Person

Thomas P. Cain (Louisville, Jefferson County, dry goods merchant)

b. 1824?

Louisville, Kentucky, dry goods merchant. Pennsylvania native. Married to Eliza Hagan Cain in Washington County, Kentucky, on May 19, 1857. Father of James Cain and Mary Cain. Dry Goods Merchant in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1860. Dry Goods Merchant in partnership with Thomas Slevin and Richard D. Slevin in T. & R. Slevin & Cain in Jefferson County from 1854 to 1877. Employed Margrett Sprechue in Louisville in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 6, p. 251.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 6, p. 277B.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Washington County Marriages, Film 001915011, p. 31.

Henry Tanner, ed., Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 49, 228.

Citation

Cain, Thomas P.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32208583 (November 12, 2026).

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