Ed was a 1913 graduate of Greensboro High School where he was a marshal and excelled in athletics. He attended Washington & Lee where he became a member of Sigma Chi fraternity and a member of "old North State" a social club for students from North Carolina. He was awarded a
certificate for completion for the full course from Eastman College in Poughkeepsie NY.
He and his younger brother, Bill Bain, enlisted in the U S Navy during WW-I. After the war he entered the lumber business with his father at the E E Bain & Son Lumber Company. The company enjoyed success until the Great
Depression and a major fire destroyed much plant.
Ed became the pioneer salesman in the southeast for the National Gypsum Company of Buffalo NY. The family resided in Columbia, Tampa and Atlanta before moving to Sylva in 1945. Sylva was the home of his wife Isabel. She had been diagnosed with cancer and died in 1948. After her death he returned to his native home in Greensboro. His own health failing he died in the Veterans Hospital in Fayetteville NC.
He was a member of Greensboro Lodge #76, a 32nd mason and Shriner.
Edward E. Bain
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Ed was a 1913 graduate of Greensboro High School where he was a marshal and excelled in athletics. He attended Washington & Lee where he became a member of Sigma Chi fraternity and a member of "old North State" a social club for students from North Carolina. He was awarded a
certificate for completion for the full course from Eastman College in Poughkeepsie NY.
He and his younger brother, Bill Bain, enlisted in the U S Navy during WW-I. After the war he entered the lumber business with his father at the E E Bain & Son Lumber Company. The company enjoyed success until the Great
Depression and a major fire destroyed much plant.
Ed became the pioneer salesman in the southeast for the National Gypsum Company of Buffalo NY. The family resided in Columbia, Tampa and Atlanta before moving to Sylva in 1945. Sylva was the home of his wife Isabel. She had been diagnosed with cancer and died in 1948. After her death he returned to his native home in Greensboro. His own health failing he died in the Veterans Hospital in Fayetteville NC.
He was a member of Greensboro Lodge #76, a 32nd mason and Shriner.
Edward E. Bain
[email protected]
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