Biography

05/28/1831 - 12/24/1895

GAINE, Charles, a Representative from Bucks County; born, May 28, 1831 in Penn’s Park, Bucks County, Pa.; attended, Tremont Seminary, Norristown; attended, Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass.; engaged, mercantile business; farmer; elected, school director, Wrightstown (6 years); elected, auditor, Wrightstown (3 years); elected, auditor, Bucks County (3 years); elected, justice of the peace (10 years); elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1884 and 1886; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1888); died, December 24, 1895; interred, Union Cemetery, Richboro, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.