The ingenious foundryman John T. Cahill built a "neat two-story dwelling" on Pine between Fourth and Fifth in 1879. His father, the molder William Cahill, lived there. The brickmaker John W. Wells provided brick portions of the home, and a Mr. Dorn was the carpenter. John Cahill was born in Lynchburg, Va., in 1855. His parents, William and Margaret Maher Cahill, were natives of Ireland who had moved to Chattanooga before the Civil War. John Cahill learned the foundry trade at the foundry of Thomas Webster on King Street.

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