JOHN M. GAINEY, Township Trustee and general merchant, is the son of Wesley
and Sarah (BARKER) GAINEY, born in Taylor Township, Greene Co., Ind., August
2, 1846, and is of Scotch-English lineage.  The early life of Mr. Gainey was
spent in attending school.  In his sixteenth year he enlisted in the United
State Army, in Company D, Fourteenth Indiana Volunteers, and after taking
part in the battles of Petersburg, second Bull Run, Winchester, Antietam,
Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Wilderness, Spottsylvania and Cold Harbor, he
was honorably discharged March 7,1865, in front of Petersburg, Va.  The
father of Mr. Gainey, who was a native of Lawrence County, Ind., was also a
soldier in the late war, and was wounded at the battle of the Wilderness.
He was one of the early-day men of Lawrence County;  his death took place in
1880.  After this service in his country's cause the subject of this sketch
engaged as a clerk in a dry goods store in Bedford.  Either as a clerk or in
the mercantile business Mr. Gainey has been engaged since the time of the
war, save two years that he served as Deputy Auditor of Lawrence County.  In
1873 he began business in Springville, at which he still continues.  He has
a general store, and has a capital of $3,000 invested.  Mr. Gainey has one
of the most complete stocks of goods in Springville, and one of the best
selected.  Politically he is an ultra Republican, and always has been.  His
first Presidential vote was cast for U. S. Grant.  In 1882 he was elected
Trustee of Perry township.  During his administration he increased teachers'
wages, and lengthened the term of schools.  Mr. Gainey believes in
compulsory education, and is an advocate of the greatest possible
advancement in an educational point of view.  He was married, in 1867, to
Miss Kate E. WOODWARD, a native of Springville.  Mrs. Gainey is a member of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, and Mr. Gainey is a member of the I. O. O.
F., and one of the enterprising men of Lawrence County.


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