Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2013, All Rights Reserved U.S. Data Repository Please read U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and used with permission of Fred Smoot ========================================================================= U.S. Data Repository NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization. Non-commercial organizations desiring to use this material must obtain the consent of the transcriber prior to use. Individuals desiring to use this material in their own research may do so. ========================================================================= Formatted by U.S. Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. ========================================================================== The Goodspeed Publishing Company, History of Tennessee, 1887 Hon. JOHN FAIN, lawyer, was born in this county, December 20,1835, the son of THOMAS and RACHEL (ANDERSON) FAIN, the former born near Blountville, July 31, 1809, the son of JOHN R., of this county, who was a son of JOHN, a Virginian, who died at the hands of the Indians, on Lookout Mountain. The father, a farmer and merchant, lives at Arcadia, in this county. The mother, born in February, 1814, was the daughter of JOHN ANDERSON, a native of Augusta County, Va., the son of WILLIAM, also a Virginian. JOHN became a pioneer, near Blountville, and was a magistrate and surveyor for several years. He filled the former office forty years. The mother died July 10, 1884. Our subject, the eldest of ten children, was educated at Washington College, and at Rotherwood Seminary, in Hawkins County. From 1858 he spent several years in Texas, engaged in farming and teaching; in 1862 joined MARTIN’S Confederate Texas Rangers and in 1863 became lieutenant of Company F. He was always a Union man. He surrendered at Richmond, Tex., in 1865. After teaching until 1868, he came to this county, and resumed his law studies, so as to be admitted in 1870, since which time he has been in successful practice. From 1878 to 1886 he was attorney-general of the First District. Since then he has been one of the leading lawyers of Blountville. In 1886 he was elected to represent the First District in the Legislature, as a Republican, and is now a member of that body. In 1857 he married CARRIE V., a daughter of WILLIAM BICKLEY, deceased. She was born in 1842, in Scott County, Va. They have twelve children, ten of whom are living. ===========================================================================