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Facts and Events
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 The Blaine Journal
7 Mar 1919.
CORNELIUS CAIN
Born, August 14, 1835, in Will county, Ill, to the wife of John Cain, a son. Died, Saturday, March 4, 1919 [1899] in the State of Washington, Cornelius Cain, aged 63 years, 6 months and 15 days.
Living for a long time in Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin, Nebraska and Dakota, Cornelius Cain finally left the latter state, or then territory, in company with his parents and other members of the family, on the 24th day of May, 1871, bound for Semiahmoo, to which place their former neighbors, the Kingsleys and Dexters, had a short time preceded them. The route then was overland by the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads to San Francisco, then by steamship north to Portland. Cornelius crossed overland on foot from Portland to Olympia where he secured two teams by which the family was transported to the latter place, where they took a small steamer for Seattle.
Seattle was a dead looking place then, but 30 miles farther down the Sound was an active young city which promised better things. Mulkiteo was booming, with hundreds of loggers about its streets and a big brewery and other industries in full blast. But all the attractions of the prospective metropolis could not hold them and they came on, arriving at Semiahmoo July 1, 1871.
E. W. Adams, a brother of E. M. Adams, the Holtzheimer brothers of California creek, and J. N. Lindsey were also in this party. The Cains went to Hillside, where they remained until March 15, 1872, when Cornelius purchased for $400 the squatter right of a man named Crampton, who resided on a then unsurveyed half-mile strip adjoining the international boundary line. This was the begining of the connection of Cornelius Cain with what was to be the town of Blaine. The Kingsleys, D. S. Miller, E. A. Boblett and John Wagner were the only settlers on this side of the harbor, though there were a number of people at Semiahmoo and had been since the Fraser river gold excitement.
The land on which Cornelius secured the squatter's right was surveyed in 1874 and entered as a redemption by his father, John Cain, who proved up on the same and it soon passed into control of the firm of Cain Bros., who started a general store in 1883. The store was sold and in 1885 the townsite of Blaine was platted, a postoffice established and the Blaine Journal started by the brothers.
(Detailed obit in The Blaine Journal of March 10, 1899)
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