McCain - Fred T.
Source: Bowen, A.W. History of Montgomery County, Indiana, Indianapolis: A.W. Bowen, 1913. p. 875
Among the newspaper men of Montgomery County the name of Fred T.
McCain, secretary of the company that publishes The Crawfordsville
Journal has long been familiar and he has made his influence felt in a
most potent manner in the locality of which this history treats and he
is not unknown to the wider journalistic fraternity of the state,
occupying as he does a prominent place in his profession and standing
high in the esteem of the fraternity wherever he is known. He has
literally grown up in a newspaper office, following in the footsteps of
his honored father in a professional way, the elder McCain proving to be
an able preceptor, and was long regarded as a man of influence in the
affairs of Montgomery County.
Mr. McCain was born in this county July
24, 1874. He is a son of Thomas Hart Benton and Salome (Longley) McCain.
The father was born Jan 24, 1839 in Clinton County, Indiana and his
death occurred May 1, 1908. The mother of our subject was born July 5,
1841 in Cincinnati, Ohio and she is still living in Crawfordsville.
T.H.B. McCain devoted the major portion of his life to newspaper work.
He was editor of the Crawfordsville Journal for a good many years. Prior
to that he was a teacher at Thorntown. He was a soldier in the Civil
War, having enlisted in 1861 in the 86th Indiana Volunteer Infantry in
which he served gallantly for a period of 3 years. Two children were
born to THB McCain and wife: Arthur A, a sketch of whom appears
elsewhere in this work and Fred T of this review.
Fred T. McCain
received a common school education, later was a student at Wabash
College. On Dec 16, 1902, he married Helen Krause, who was born on Jan
13, 1880. She is a daughter of J. S. and Frances (Luckenbach) Krause.
She and her parents were born in PA her birth occuring at the town of
Bethlehem, and there she received a common and high school education. To
Mr. and Mrs. McCain two children were born, namely: Frederick born Nov
2, 1903 is attending school and Samuel born Aug 15, 1910. Mr. McCain has
practically spent his active life with the Crawfordsville Journal,
which he has helped to make one of the leading newspapers in western
Indiana. He was elected secretary of the firm in 1909, which position he
is still holding to the satisfaction of all concerned. Politically, Mr.
McCain is a Republican. He belongs to the Commercial Club, and takes
much interest in the affairs of the city. - typed by kbz