In the "Firemens Section" of the cemetery. 84yrs 3mos 27days. Son of William and Mary Alinda Lane Bain. Husband of Annie Ellen Love Bain. He had been a retired lumberman, and lived at 308 S. Spring St. in Greensboro at the time of his death.
He was a 1893 graduate of Guilford College, Member Greensboro Lodge #76, Owner of E E Bain and Son Lumber Company which did milling and were brokers of lumber, Lumber company was very successful until Great Depression and destroyed by a major fire, 1950 was honored as a founder of the Guilford County Fair, Was Chief of the Greensboro Volunteer Fire Department and is buried in the Honorary Fireman Section at Green Hill Cemetery, On Armistice Day 1918 he ordered all 4 fire engines with sirens turned on to circle the city as a celebration of World War I ending.
From Ed Bain III Apr 10, 2014.
He was a 1893 graduate of Guilford College, Member Greensboro Lodge #76, Owner of E E Bain and Son Lumber Company which did milling and were brokers of lumber, Lumber company was very successful until Great Depression and destroyed by a major fire, 1950 was honored as a founder of the Guilford County Fair, Was Chief of the Greensboro Volunteer Fire Department and is buried in the Honorary Fireman Section at Green Hill Cemetery, On Armistice Day 1918 he ordered all 4 fire engines with sirens turned on to circle the city as a celebration of World War I ending.
From Ed Bain III Apr 10, 2014.
In the "Firemens Section" of the cemetery. 84yrs 3mos 27days. Son of William and Mary Alinda Lane Bain. Husband of Annie Ellen Love Bain. He had been a retired lumberman, and lived at 308 S. Spring St. in Greensboro at the time of his death.
He was a 1893 graduate of Guilford College, Member Greensboro Lodge #76, Owner of E E Bain and Son Lumber Company which did milling and were brokers of lumber, Lumber company was very successful until Great Depression and destroyed by a major fire, 1950 was honored as a founder of the Guilford County Fair, Was Chief of the Greensboro Volunteer Fire Department and is buried in the Honorary Fireman Section at Green Hill Cemetery, On Armistice Day 1918 he ordered all 4 fire engines with sirens turned on to circle the city as a celebration of World War I ending.
From Ed Bain III Apr 10, 2014.
He was a 1893 graduate of Guilford College, Member Greensboro Lodge #76, Owner of E E Bain and Son Lumber Company which did milling and were brokers of lumber, Lumber company was very successful until Great Depression and destroyed by a major fire, 1950 was honored as a founder of the Guilford County Fair, Was Chief of the Greensboro Volunteer Fire Department and is buried in the Honorary Fireman Section at Green Hill Cemetery, On Armistice Day 1918 he ordered all 4 fire engines with sirens turned on to circle the city as a celebration of World War I ending.
From Ed Bain III Apr 10, 2014.
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