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Augustus G. Paine Jr.

Augustus Gibson Paine Jr. (October 19, 1866 – October 23, 1947) was an American paper manufacturer and bank official.[1]

Augustus G. Paine Jr.
Born
Augustus Gibson Paine Jr.

(1866-10-19)October 19, 1866
New York City, U.S.
DiedOctober 23, 1947(1947-10-23) (aged 81)
New York City, U.S.
Spouses
Maud Eustis Potts
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(m. 1888; died 1919)​
Francisca Machado Warren
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(m. 1923)​
Children6
Parent(s)Augustus G. Paine Sr.
Charlotte M. Bedell Paine
RelativesGeorge Eustis Paine (grandson)
Molly McGreevy (granddaughter)

Early life

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Paine was born in New York City on October 19, 1866. He was a son of Augustus G. Paine Sr. (1839–1915)[2] and Charlotte M. (née Bedell) Paine (1840–1929).[3] He was educated privately in the United States and Europe.[1]

Career

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In 1885, Paine moved to Willsboro, New York, to manage a local pulp mill. He became president of the New York and Pennsylvania Company of Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, which was founded in 1890.[4] The firm was later based at 230 Park Avenue[1] operated a Clarion paper mill and related industries in Johnsonburg, Pennsylvania, and in 1920 built the Castanea Paper Company in Lock Haven.[4] The New York and Pennsylvania Company became one of the leading paper manufacturers in the country and a major supplier to the Curtis Publishing Company, the publisher of the Ladies' Home Journal, The Saturday Evening Post and others.[1]

In 1945, Curtis Publishing Company acquired a 30% interest in the New York and Pennsylvania Company.[5] After his death in 1947, Curtis became the sole owner of the New York and Pennsylvania Co. around 1950.[4]

Ornithology

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Paine was an avid hobby ornithologist. At the age of 19 or 20, together with Lewis B. Woodruff, he composed a list of birds of Central Park, counting over 100 species. This was regarded as the first official list of birds of Central Park, and was published in Forest and Stream on June 10, 1886.[6] An article in The New Yorker on August 26, 1974, calls attention to this early list.[7]

His collection of some 1,200 specimens were later donated by his family to the American Museum of Natural History under the name "Augustus Paine and Alvah Jordan collection of birds". A copy of the original catalogue and documents relating to the gift were also given by the family to the museum archive.[8]

Personal life

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The Augustus G. Paine Jr. House (the Austrian Consulate General in New York since the 1950s).
 
The Paine Memorial Library in Willsboro.
 
Graves of Augustus G. Paine Jr. and his second wife Francisca Warren in Woodlawn Cemetery, the Bronx

In 1888, he married Maud Eustis Potts (1865–1919),[1] who converted from the Episcopal Church to Catholicism in 1913.[9] Maud was a daughter of George Potts and Mary Laurette (née Eustis) Potts. Together they were the parents of five sons, all of whom married and had children themselves:[1][10]

  • Augustus Gibson Paine III (1891–1938), who married Dorothy Marian Quimby (1893–1937), a daughter of Dr. Charles Elihu Quimby.[11]
  • George Eustis Paine (1894–1953),[12] was chairman of the board of the New York and Pennsylvania Co. until his death. He married Helen Ellis (1895–1948). After her death, he married Katryna Ten Broeck Weed (1897–1962), a daughter of New York State Assemblyman George S. Weed, in 1950.
  • Alexander Brooks Paine (1898–1976), who married Walburga Kaul Reilly (1902–1942) in 1922.[13] They later divorced before her remarriage and eventual suicide.[14]
  • Hugh Eustis Paine (1905–1973),[15] who married Helen Clirehugh Duncan (1906–1992)[16] in 1928.[17][18]
  • Peter Standish Paine (1909-2004), who was president of the New York and Pennsylvania Company. He was also CEO of the Great Northern Nekoosa Corporation. He married Ellen Cadeen Lea, a daughter of Robert C. Lea of Chestnut Hill, in 1933.[19]

Four years after the death of his first wife on June 4, 1919, he married Francisca Machado Warren (1891–1981) at St. John's Memorial Chapel in Cambridge.[20] Francisca daughter of the late Minton Warren, a Latin professor at Johns Hopkins and later Harvard University, and Salomé (née Machado) Warren, who was of Cuban descent.[21] Together Francisca and Augustus were the parents of one daughter:

  • Francisca Warren Paine (1928–2016), who married David Irwin.[22][23]

After a long illness, Paine died on October 23, 1947, at the age of 81 at his home, 31 East 69th Street in Manhattan.[1] He was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx. His widow lived another three decades until her death on February 8, 1981.

Descendants

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Through his second son George, he was a grandfather of New York State Senator George Eustis Paine (1920–1991) who married, and divorced, Joan Widener Leidy, a granddaughter of art collector Joseph E. Widener.[24] He was also a grandfather of Augustus Gibson Paine IV (1919–1993),[25] who was married (and divorced) Iris Vanderbilt Smith (1927–2006), a daughter of Earl E. T. Smith, the former U.S. Ambassador to Cuba and granddaughter of Virginia Fair Vanderbilt and William Kissam Vanderbilt II.[26] Augustus also served as president of New York and Pennsylvania Co. before becoming a partner in the Wall Street firm of Clark, Dodge & Company from 1963 until retiring in 1973.[25]

Through his son Hugh, he was also a grandfather of the actress Molly McGreevy (1936–2015), formerly Mary Wheaton Paine, known for her role as Polly Longworth on the daytime television soap opera Ryan's Hope.[27]

Through his son Peter, he was a grandfather of Peter Standish Paine Jr., a graduate of Princeton University who became a partner in the law firm of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton. Paine also served as trustee and president of the Museum of the City of New York.[28][29]

Residences

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Further information: Flat Rock Camp

Paine was closely associated with the architect C. P. H. Gilbert, who received a number of commissions from him, such as his townhouse in New York's Upper East Side on 31 East 69th Street in 1917–18.[30] The house was sold to the Austrian government in 1952, the Austrian Consulate General is located in it today.[31][32][33] When Paine was based in Willsboro, Gilbert also received commissions from him to construct the Essex County Bank in 1921.[34] In May 1930, Paine donated $150,000 for a library to the town of Willsboro in memory of his mother.[35] Both the bank and the library were constructed by Gilbert in the Neoclassical style.[36]

In 1885, after moving to Willsboro, Paine began buying land in the area, eventually amassing about 1,000 acres (400 ha), including three miles of Lake Champlain shoreline.[23] There he built his Flat Rock Camp compound,[37] which featured extensive gardens, planted on topsoil laid over the sandstone, which were maintained under the guidance of his first wife, Maud, and, after her death, his second wife Francisca and their daughter. The gardens are listed in the Smithsonian Archives of American Gardens.[23] The camp and its surrounding property, which includes wetlands, farmland, orchards and forests, are still owned by the Paine family, but in 1978 they were placed under the stewardship of the Adirondack Nature Conservancy to ensure that the land will not be developed in the future.[23]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g "Augustus G. Paine". The New York Times. October 24, 1947. Retrieved October 31, 2010.
  2. ^ "AUGUSTUS G. PAINE DEAD.; Financier Expires at the Hotel Plaza, in His 77th Year". The New York Times. March 27, 1915. Retrieved April 1, 2020.
  3. ^ "Died". The New York Times. January 16, 1929. Retrieved April 1, 2020.
  4. ^ a b c "New York and Pennsylvania Company Ledgers and Employment Records (Pa.), 1890-1964 HCLA 6031". libraries.psu.edu. Historical Collections and Labor Archives, Special Collections Library, Pennsylvania State University. Retrieved April 1, 2020.
  5. ^ "TO BUY INTO PAPER PLANT; Curtis to Get 30% Interest in New York & Pennsylvania Unit". The New York Times. November 10, 1945. Retrieved April 1, 2020.
  6. ^ "List of birds of Central Park". Forest and Stream. XXVI (20). New York: The Forest and Stream Publishing Company: 386–387. June 10, 1886.
  7. ^ Eugene Kinkead (August 26, 1974). "The Birds of Central Park". The New Yorker. Vol. XXVI, no. 20. New York. p. 78.
  8. ^ "Collection: Augustus Paine and Alvah Jordan collection of birds | Research Library | Archives". data.library.amnh.org. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved April 1, 2020.
  9. ^ "Mrs. A.H. Paine, Jr., a Catholic Today; Leaves Her Communion with St. Mary the Virgin, Episcopal". The New York Times. April 11, 1913. Retrieved October 31, 2010.
  10. ^ Supreme Court of the State of New York. Supreme Court of the State of New York. 1956. p. 45. Retrieved April 1, 2020.
  11. ^ Transactions of the American Climatological and Clinical Association. American Climatological and Clinical Association. 1922. p. 20. Retrieved April 1, 2020.
  12. ^ "G. Eustis Paine, 59, An Industrialist | Board Chairman and Former President of Paper Concern Dies at His Home Here". The New York Times. March 28, 1953. Retrieved May 24, 2018.
  13. ^ "MISS REILLY A BRIDE: Philadelphia Girl Weds Alexander Brooks Paine of New York". The New York Times. April 2, 1922. Retrieved April 1, 2020.
  14. ^ TIMES, Special to THE NEW YORK (October 31, 1942). "MRS. STACKPOLE A SUICIDE; Plunges to Death From Room of Mother in Philadelphia". The New York Times. Retrieved April 1, 2020.
  15. ^ "Hugh Paine, 68, Dies; a Stockbroker Here". The New York Times. March 31, 1973. Retrieved April 1, 2020.
  16. ^ "Hugh Paine, 68, dies", The New York Times, March 31, 1973
  17. ^ "LEILA FLEISCHMANN ENGAGED TO MARRY; Daughter of Charles Russell Fleischmann Betrothed to John Burton Fiery. BRIDAL SET FOR OCTOBER Helen Clirehugh Duncan Affianced to Hugh Eustis Paine--Will Be Wed In the Autumn. Duncan--Paine". The New York Times. June 20, 1928. Retrieved April 1, 2020.
  18. ^ "MISS DUNCAN WEDS HUGH EUSTIS PAINE; Ceremony in Ballroom of the Park Lane Performed by the Rev. H.L.Sargent. Barkin--Smith". The New York Times. November 28, 1928. Retrieved April 1, 2020.
  19. ^ "MISS LEA TO WED SEPT. 27. Fiancee of Peter Standish Paine Chooses Her Attendants". The New York Times. September 6, 1933. Retrieved April 1, 2020.
  20. ^ "A. G. PAINE JR. MARRIES. Union Club Member Weds Miss Francesca Warren in Cambridge". The New York Times. February 6, 1923. Retrieved April 1, 2020.
  21. ^ John William Leonard (ed.). "WARREN, Salomé Machado". Woman's Who's Who of America. New York: The American Commonwealth Company. p. 851. (Mrs. Minton Warren), 105 Irving St., Boston, Mass. Born Puerto Principe, Island of Cuba; dau. Juan Francisco and Elizabeth Frances (Jones) Machado; grad. Smith Coll., A.B. '83; m. Salem, Mass., Dec. 29, 1885, Prof. Minton Warren, then Latin prof. of Johns Hopkins Univ., later of Harvard Univ. (died 1907); children: Minton Machado, Francisco (sic) Machado. Interested in higher education of women, music, and Romance languages. Mem. Circolo Italiano of Boston. Favors woman suffrage.
  22. ^ "Obituary of Francisca Irwin Paine". hamiltonfuneralhome.com. Hamilton Funeral Home. Retrieved April 1, 2020.
  23. ^ a b c d Loughrey, Janet (2005). Gardens Adirondack Style. Down East Enterprises. pp. 137–140. ISBN 0-89272-623-7. Retrieved April 1, 2020.
  24. ^ "MISS JOAN LEIDY ENGAGED TO WED; Troth of Joseph E. Widener's Granddaughter to Geo. Paine Jr. Announced in Florida SHE IS OGONTZ STUDENT Graduate of Fermata School in Aiken, S. C. -- Fiance Attended Princeton". The New York Times. April 12, 1941. Retrieved May 24, 2018.
  25. ^ a b "Augustus G. Paine 2d, A Paper Executive, 73". The New York Times. May 10, 1993. Retrieved April 1, 2020.
  26. ^ "Jonathan Keith to Wed Helen E. Paine in Fall". The New York Times. April 18, 1976. Retrieved April 1, 2020.
  27. ^ "McGREEVY--Molly Paine". The New York Times. November 7, 2015. Retrieved April 1, 2020.
  28. ^ "Memorial Peter Standish Paine '32". paw.princeton.edu. Princeton Alumni Weekly. Retrieved April 1, 2020.
  29. ^ "Els M. Neukermans to Wed in August". The New York Times. December 31, 1989. Retrieved April 1, 2020.
  30. ^ Doane, Ralph Harrington (May 1919). "The Residence of Augustus G. Paine, Esq". The Architectural Review. VIII (5). New York: The Architectural Review, Inc.: 123–126.
  31. ^ "Austria Acquires Residence in City; Buys Clendenin Ryan's Home in New Foreign Service Area for Consulate General". The New York Times. February 24, 1952. Retrieved October 31, 2010.
  32. ^ "Streetscapes: 40 East 70th Street; A Growth Plan for a Neo-Georgian Garage". The New York Times. April 26, 1992. Retrieved October 31, 2010.
  33. ^ "Austrian Consulate General". Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs. 2010. Retrieved November 1, 2010.
  34. ^ "Architecture of the Champlain Valley, Willsboro" (PDF). Adirondack Architectural Heritage. 2010. Archived (PDF) from the original on October 25, 2010. Retrieved November 1, 2010.
  35. ^ "$150,000 GIFT FOR LIBRARY.; A.G. Paine Provides Memorial for Mother at Willsboro, N.Y." The New York Times. May 20, 1930. Retrieved April 1, 2020.
  36. ^ "History". Paine Memorial Library. 2010. Retrieved November 14, 2010.[permanent dead link]
  37. ^ "Flat Rock Camp". Adirondack Architectural Heritage. 2010. Archived from the original on October 25, 2010. Retrieved November 1, 2010.
 
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