Richard Cain was a political and civic leader of Charleston, South Carolina during the reconstruction era. Cain was born to free parents. His family moved to Gallipolis, Ohio in 1831. He attended school and worked on the steamboats along the Ohio River. Cain entered the ministry in Hannibal Missouri, in 1844, but was unhappy with […]

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