Robert Cain (brewer) his mother's maiden name is listed as Mary Kirk (died 1864). The story of the life of Robert Cain and Cains Brewery is told in Christopher Routledge's 2008 history of the brewery, "Cains: The Story of Liverpool in a Pint", which unpicks many of the mythologies that have developed around the Cain family. Many of these mythologies seem to date back to the 1920s and 1930s, when Cain's sons William Cain and Charles Nall-Cain were given titles in the British honours system, and centre on the idea that the brewery's founder had a background in the Irish gentry. Such a
Erwin Cain the incumbent Democratic Judge Scott McDowell, who received 18,977 votes (52 percent). Cain carried Delta, Hopkins, and Rains counties, but McDowell's winning margin is attributed to Lamar County. It was after this judicial race that Cain assumed the Hopkins County Republican chairmanship. With 7,074 votes (60.1 percent), Cain won the Republican nomination for the District 3 House seat on March 2, 2010, by defeating Holland Harper of Paris, the county seat of Lamar County in northeast Texas, who trailed with 4,689 (39.9 percent). In the ensuing general election on November 2, 2010, Cain unseated the six-term Democratic Representative Mark S.