Text: Henry Edward Cain, “Vita,” The Poe-Mangan Question (1929), p. 95

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Henry Edward Cain was born at Washington, D. C., December 23, 1903. He received his elementary education at Saint Benedict's Academy at Brookland, and entered Gonzaga College High School in 1917, from which he was graduated in June, 1921. He matriculated in the School of Letters of The Catholic University of America in the fall of 1921, and received the degree Bachelor of Arts in 1925. He was awarded a graduate scholarship by the Knights of Columbus Foundation, and entered upon his studies under the direction of Professor Patrick J. Lennox, Litt. D., whose lectures in English Literature he attended. He also attended the lectures of Mr. Arthur Deering, A. M., in the drama and in American Literature; of Rev. Edwin Ryan, S. T. D., in English Literature; of Professor Paul G. Gleis, Ph. D., in Old English and Germanic Philology; of Rev. James A. Geary, A. B., in Comparative Philology and General Linguistics; and of Professor Charles H. McCarthy, Ph. D., in American History. He received the degree Master of Arts in June 1926.