Nicholas T. Kane was born in County Waterford in Ireland (then a part of the U.K.) on September 12, 1846.
[1] His family moved to the United States in 1848 and settled near Albany, New York, and Kane attended the local schools.
[4][5] Kane served until the end of the war in 1865, and afterwards remained active in the Grand Army of the Republic.
[6][7] After the war, Kane worked in woolen mills in New York and Rhode Island, as did several of his brothers and other relatives.
He served from March 4, 1887, until his death from tuberculosis in Albany on September 14, 1887, before the Congressional session started.