Thomas Cain

Thomas Cain was born in Trenton in 1776, a son of William Cain and Mary Cole. Like others of his trade, Cain also worked as a house painter at times, doing so at the State House in 1812. By the 1820s, he had entered in a soap and candle manufacturing business with his son. Thomas Cain died in Trenton in 1843. He was interred in the churchyard of St. Michael's Episcopal Church.