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James G. McCain, farmer, Champagnolle, Ark. This gentleman was born in the State of South Carolina, April 4, 1830, and with his father, John C. McCain, moved to this State in the year 1839, settling in Union County, where he has resided ever since. He received his education in the split-log cabins common in the country at that early day. At the age of fourteen his father was murdered, which event blighted his prospects for a first-class English education, and left him with a perfect hatred for murder. He became impressed with the truths of the Christian religion at the age of nineteen, and at the age of twenty-one united with the Missionary Baptist Church, since which time he has been an active member of that denomination. He was ordained to the ministry in the year 1868, and has been the pastor of from one to three churches ever since his ordination. He believes that ministers of the gospel should labor with their own hands to help support themselves and their families, consequently he follows farming and milling. In early life he taught school awhile, but not liking such a monotonous life, discontinued that business, and returned to the farm. He was elected justice of the peace three terms, and was associate justice for Union County at the commencement of the war, which office he resigned to enter the army, as a second lieutenant in the First Trans-Mississippi Regiment, but owing to ill health, he was discharged and returned home, and now rejoices that the Lord did not permit him to fire a gun in the defense of human slavery. Since the war he has held the office of assessor for his county, for five years. Mr. McCain is quite public-spirited, loves the cause of religion, education, temperance, and everything else that adds to the happiness of the people generally. He was married to Miss Margaret J. Morgan, a daughter of William S. and Cynthia (Mardis) Morgan, of Shelby County, Ala., August 9, 1855. Miss Morgan was born June 29, 1838, in Shelby County, Ala. She is a niece of the Mardises of that county. Her uncle John was a good physician and her uncle Samuel was a member of Congress at the time of his death. She is a lady in every sense of the term, a good wife, a Christian, a loving mother and a true friend. This union has been blessed with seven children: Mary E., William C, Aura C. J., Carrie H., Mattie J., John M. and Cora M., five of whom are still living. They own a very well-improved country home, where they hope to spend the evening of their days.