Bain, Charles Wesley, 1864-1915

Charles Wesley Bain (1864-1915) was the son of George McK. and Willie Frances Cherry Bain of Norfolk, Va. He was educated at Colonel William Gordon McCabe's school in Virginia, was graduated from the University of Virginia, and received an M.A. from the University of the South in 1895. He taught school at Savannah, Ga.; was joint headmaster at Rugby School in Louisville, Ky.; classical master at McCabe's School in Petersburg, Va.; and headmaster at Sewannee Grammar School. He was married in 1891 to Isabel de R. Plumer of Petersburg, Va., and they had two children. Bain was later professor of Greek at the University of South Carolina, 1898-1910, and at the University of North Carolina, 1910-1915. He was the author of several textbooks in his field, and edited and published classical texts.