Page, Richard Channing Moore – Paine, Martyn
Page, Richard Channing Moore
physician, author, was born Jan. 2, 1841, in Keswick, Va. During the civil war he served in the confederate army. He entered as a private; was severely wounded at Gettysburg; and in 1864 was made chief of artillery for the department of southwest Virginia and East Tennessee on the staff of General John C. Breckinridge.
Since 1868 he has practiced medicine in the city of New York; has been house physician at Bellevue hospital, and house surgeon in the Woman's hospital. Since 1886 he has been professor of the diseases of the chest and general medicine in the New York Polyclinic. He is the author of A Practice of Medicine; Page's Physical Diagnosis; Chart of Physical Science; and numerous pamphlets on medical subjects. He is also the author of a Genealogy of the Page Family in Virginia.
Page, Robert
congressman, was born in 1764, in North End, Va. He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1799 to 1801. He died Jan. 1, 1840, in Virginia.
Page, Sherman
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born in Connecticut. He served in the assembly of New York from Otsego county in 1827; and was a representative in congress from that state from 1833 to 1837. He was also judge of the common pleas in Otsego county. He died in Unadilla, N. Y.
Page, Thomas Jefferson
soldier, author, was born Jan. 4, 1808, in Shelby, Va. He was a naval officer in the service of the southern confederacy in 1861-62; and the author of La Plata, the Argentine Confederation, and Paraguay.
Page, Thomas Nelson
lawyer, author, was born April 23, 1853, in Oakland, Va. He is a lawyer of Richmond, Va., whose studies of southern life are notable for a singular charm of style. He is the author of In Old Virginia; Two Little Confederates; On Newfound River; Elsket, and Other Stories; The Old South; Pastime Stories; Essays, Social and Political; Unc' Edinburg, a Plantation Echo; The Burial of the Guns; Polly; Among the Camps; Meh Lady; Marse Chan; and Befo' de War.
Page, Walter Hines
journalist, was born Aug. 15, 1855, in Cary, N. C. In 1887 he became manager and stockholder of the Forum, one of the most important high-class periodicals in the United States; and in 1891 he became its editor.
Page, William Byrd
surgeon, educator, was born May 19, 1817, in Pagebrook, Va. He was for many years professor of surgery in Pennsylvania Medical college, and surgeon to the Pennsylvania Institution for the Blind. He died Feb. 18, 1877, in Philadelphia.
Paige, Allen Wallace
legislator, was born Feb. 28, 1855, in Sherman, Conn.
He is the senior partner of the firm of Paige and Carroll, one of the most successful law firms in Bridgeport, Conn. In 1882 he was elected a member of the lower house of the general assembly, and in 1890 was returned to the house from the town of Huntington.
Paige, Alonzo Christopher
lawyer, jurist, state senator, author, was born July 31, 1797, in Schaghticoke, N. Y. He was sent to the New York legislature in 1826, and served for four years. In 1837-42 he was a member of the state senate. On the introduction of the elective judiciary system in 1847 he was chosen a judge of the supreme court, and served for four years. He compiled eleven volumes of Reports of Cases in the Court of Chancery, four of which he revised and annotated in 1856-57. He died March 31, 1868, in Schenectady, N. Y.
Paige, Charles L
poet, was born Dec. 9, 1859, in Pontiac, Ill. Since 1873 he has lived in Shasta, Cal., and has served as postmaster, telegraph operator, and been a successful merchant. He is the author of a volume of poems entitled The White Shoshone; and other works. He is also a constant contributor of both prose and verse to current publications; and his poems have been given a place in several standard collections.
Paige, David Raymond
merchant, congressman, was born April 8, 1844, in Madison, Ohio. He engaged in the hardware business in Akron, Ohio; and was elected treasurer of Summit county in 1874, and re-elected in 1876. He was elected a representative from Ohio to the forty-eighth congress as a democrat.
Paige, Lucius Robinson
clergyman, author, was born March 8, 1802, in Hardwick, Mass. He was a universalist clergyman who retired from the ministry in 1839, and subsequently filled several offices of trust in Cambridge. He was the author of Commentary on the New Testament; History of Cambridge, 1630-1877, with Genealogical Register; and History of Hardwick, Massachusetts. He died in 1896.
Paine, Albert Ware
lawyer, was born Aug. 16, 1812, in Winslow, Maine.
He has practiced law for sixty-two years continuously. In the state of Maine he has been bank and insurance examiner, insurance commissioner, tax commissioner, president of Maine Telegraph company, and president of the Penobscot bar. He is the author of Paine Genealogy and New Philosophy, and has contributed extensively to current publications.
Paine, Charles
manufacturer, governor, was born April 15, 1799, in Williamstown, Vt. He was a liberal patron of the university of Vermont and the Northfield academy; and was governor of the state from 1841 to 1843. He died July 6, 1853, in Waco, Texas.
Paine, Charles Jackson
soldier, was born Aug. 26, 1833, in Boston, Mass.
He served with distinction through the civil war, and attained the brevet of major-general of volunteers. He has taken much interest in yachting; and was one of the builders of the Puritan; and in 1886-87 built alone Mayflower.
Paine, Eleazar A
soldier, lawyer, state legislator, was born Sept. 10, 1815, in Parkman, Ohio. He served in the Illinois state legislature in 1852-53. He served with distinction through the civil war, and attained the rank of brigadier-general of volunteers. He died Dec. 16, 1882, in Jersey City, N. J.
Paine, Elijah
lawyer, United States senator, was born Jan. 21, 1757, in Brooklyn, Conn. In 1787 he was elected to the Vermont state legislature, and so continued until 1791, when he was appointed judge of the supreme court. He was a trustee of Dartmouth college; president of the Vermont Colonization society; and a pecuniary benefactor of the university of Vermont. He was a senator in congress from Vermont from 1795 to 1801; and in 1801 was appointed judge of the district court of Vermont, which office he held until within a month of his death, when he resigned. He died April 28, 1842, in Williamstown, Vt. /
Paine, Elijah
lawyer, jurist, author, was born April 10, 1796, in Williamstown, Vt. He was a jurist and legal writer of New York city; and the author of Paine's Reports; and Practice in Civil Actions and Proceedings in the State of New York.
He died Oct. 6, 1853, in New York city.
Paine, Ephraim
congressman. He was a delegate from New York to the continental congress in 1784 and 1785.
Paine, Halbert E
soldier, congressman, author, was born Feb. 4, 1826, in Chardon, Ohio. He entered the army in 1861 as colonel of the fourth Wisconsin regiment; and was brevetted a majorgeneral in 1865. He was elected a representative from Wisconsin to the thirtyninth congress; and was re-elected to the fortieth and forty-first congresses as a republican. He is the author of a Treatise on the Law of Elections to Public Offices.
Paine, Harriet Eliza
educator, author, was born in 18-, in Massachusetts. She is a Boston educator; and the author of Girls and Women, a helpful book for girls.
Paine, Horace Marshfield
lawyer, author, was born Nov. 19, 1827, in Paris, N. Y. He began to practice as a homœopathist in Albany, where he has continued, with the exception of the years 1855-65, when he was in Clinton, N. Y.
He was an editor of the Medical Union of New York in 1873-74; and is the author of many contributions to medical literature.
Paine, John Alsop
archæologist, was born Jan. 14, 1840, in Newark, N. J.
In 1872 he was appointed archæologist to the first expedition that was sent by the Palestine Exploration society to regions east of the Jordan and the Dead sea. In 1873 he discovered and deciphered one Roman and two Greek inscriptions near Beirût, Syria, the chief one of which, in Greek, he made the subject of a special report, and it was published in the Second Statement of the society.
Paine, John Knowles
musician, composer, was born Jan. 9, 1839, in Portland, Maine. He has given organ concerts in Europe and America; and many of his orchestral works have been performed in the principal cities of the United States. His first symphony was brought out by Theodore Thomas in 1876.
He composed the centennial hymn to the words of John G. Whittier that was sung at the opening of the exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876. He is ranked among the foremost living composers.
Paine, Levi Leonard
educator, clergyman, author, was born Oct. 10, 1848, in Holbrook, Mass. He is professor of ecclesiastical history in the Bangor Theological seminary; and a congregational clergyman well known throughout the United States. He is the author of a volume of sermons and addresses, and has contributed various articles to religious journals.
Paine, Martyn
physician, author, was born July 8, 1794, in Williamstown, Vt. He was a physician of New York city; and the author of Medical and Physiological Commentaries; Institutes of Medicine; The Cholera Asphyxia of New York (1832); Physiology of Digestion; Physiology of the Soul and Instinct as Distinguished from Materialism; Review of Theoretical Geology; The Philosophy of Vitality; Defense of the Medical Profession of the United States; A Therapeutical Arrangement of Materia Medica; and Organic Life Distinguished from Chemical and Physical Doctrines. He died Nov. 10, 1877, in New York city.