PAINE
PAINE
raim became the manager of a large farm. He
also studied medicine with Dr. Jolm Adams, and
practiced for a time in Amenia. He was a dele-
gate to the Provincial congress of 1775. and was
prominent during the Revolutionary struggle.
He was county judge, 1778-81; a member of the
council of appointment in 1780; a state senator,
1780-84, and a delegate to the Continental con-
gress, 1784-85. where he proposed that the num-
ber of commissioners appointed to negotiate with
the Indians be reinforced by one, and that the
sum of $8,000 be presented to Baron Steuben.
This latter bill failed in its passage, but was
afterward affirmed and the sum increased to
$10,000. He was married, first, to Elizabeth
Harris of Amenia, and, secondly, to Martha
Tliompson. He died in Amenia, N.Y.,Aug. 10, 1785.
PAINE, Halbert Eleazer, lawjer, was born
in Chardon, Geauga county, Ohio. Feb. 4, 1826;
son of Eleazer and Jane Caroline (Hoyt) Paine;
grandson of Eleazer and Anna (Els worth) Paine
and of Noah and Rhoda (Waters) Hoyt, and a
descendant of Stephen Paine, who emigrated
from Norfolk county, England, in the ship Dili-
gent in 1038, and settled in Hingham, Mass., and
in 1643. in Seekonk, now Rehoboth, Mass. He
was a miller by trade; a delegate to the general
court, and with others bought the land from the
Indians on which Attleboro, Mass., is situated.
Ilalbert Eleazer Paine was graduated at Western
Reserve college, A.B., 1845, A.M., 1848; was tutor
there. 1847-49, and was admitted to the bar in
Cleveland. Ohio, in 1849, where he practiced,
1849-57, and at Milwaukee, Wis. , 1857-61. He was
major-general in the Ohio militia, 1856-7. He was
married, Sept. 10, 1850, to Eliza Leeworthy,
daughter of Harvey Brigham of Windham, Ohio.
He entered the Union army as quartermaster of
the 2d Wisconsin infantry; was appointed col-
onel of the 4th Wisconsin infantry in May, 1861;
was stationed in Baltimore, Md., and left with
General Butler on the New Orleans expedition in
1863. He captured the town of Grand Gulf and
burnt it. by order of General Butler. He was
placed under arrest at Baton Rouge, La., by Gen.
Thomas Williams for refusing to obey an order
to return fugitive slaves in the camps to their
masters, and remained in arrest, except when
the troops went into action. On the death of
Williams at the battle of Baton Rouge, Aug. 5,
1862, he was relea.sed by General Butler and or-
dered to command the forces at Baton Rouge,
where he packed the statue of Washington and the
books in the library at the state capitol. shipping
them to New Orleans before evacuating the place
on the 20th. He was transferred to the command
of thp 1st brigade, T. W. Sherman's division,
in September. 1802; afterward to the 3d brigade,
Grover's division, and finally to the 2d brigade of
Emory's division, 19th army corps. He was pro-
moted brigadier-general of volunteers March 13,
1863, and in May, 1863, succeeded to the command
of the 3d division, 19th corps, and while leading
in the assault on Port Hudson, lost a leg, June
14, 1863. He was appointed a member of General
Augur's military commission at Washington,
D.C, Sept. 1, 1863; commanded the forces sta-
tioned between Forts Stevens and Totten during
General Early's attempt to capture Washington
in July, 1864, and commanded the military dis-
trict of Illinois, August to October, 1864. He
returned to Milwaukee, was bre vetted major-
general of volunteers, March 13, 1865, and resigned
from the army May 15, 1865. He was a Repub-
lican representative from the first Wisconsin
district in the 39th, 40th and 41st congresses,
1865-71; was a member of the committee on
reconstruction, of that on soldiers' and sailors'
bounties and chairman of the committee on elec-
tions, and of that on militia. He framed and
secured the passage of the bill organizing the
U.S. signal service in 1869. He resumed the
practise of law in Washington, D.C, in 1871;
was U.S. commissioner of patents, 1878-90, and
was still continuing his law practise at the
national capital in 1902. He received the degree
of LL.D. from Western Reserve college in 1875.
He is the author of: Paine on Contested Elec-
tions (1880).
PAINE, Harriet Eliza, author, was born, in Rehoboth, Mass., May 5, 1845; daughter of the Rev. John Chester and Eliza (Folger) Paine, and
granddaughter of Hon. Elijah and (Pomeroy)
Paine of Ashfield, Mass., and of Gideon and Eunice (Macy) Folger of Nantucket. She was graduated at Wheaton seminary, Norton. Mass., in 1862, where she was a pupil of Lucj- Lar- com in literature and composition, and where she taught for several years. She was principal of Robinson seminary, Exeter, N.H., 1875-78, and taught in private schools in Boston, Mass. She is the author of: Bird Songs of Kew Eng- land (1882); Girls and Women (1890); Chats with Girls on Self-Culture (1891), and The Unmarried Woman (1892), the last three being written un- der the pen name "Eliza Cliester."'
PAINE, John Alsop, archaeologist, was born in Newark, N.J., Jan. 14. 1840; son of Dr. Jolin Alsop (1795-1871) and Amanda (Kellogg) Paine; grandson of Ezra (1767-1828) and Elizabeth (Weeks) Paine, and a descendant, in the eighth generation (through John^. Alsop*, John^, John^) of Thomas Payne, 2nd (1586-1650), born in Wren- tham, Suffolk, England, who came to America about 1637 with six children and settled in Salem, ISIass. John Alsop Paine, 2nd. was graduated from Hamilton college. A. B., 1859. A. M., 1862, and from Andover Theological seminary in 1862,
