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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, 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, 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, Robert

bishop, author, was born Nov. 12, 1799, in Parson county, N. C.

He was a prominent methodist bishop whose Life and Times of Bishop McKendree was once a popular biography. He died Oct. 20, 1882, in Aberdeen, Miss.

Paine, Robert T

congressman, was born in North Carolina. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1855 to 1857.