Augustus G. Paine, Jr.

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

Biography

Born in New York City, he was the son of Augustus G. Paine, Sr. (1839–1915)[2] and Charlotte M. Bedell Paine (1840–1929).[1][2] He was educated privately in the United States and Europe.[1] He became president of the New York and Pennsylvania Company, which was based in 230 Park Avenue.[1] The New York and Pennsylvania Company was 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. He died in his home at 31 East 69th Street after a long illness at the age of 81,[1] and was laid to rest in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx.[3][4][5]

Family

In 1888 he married Maud Eustis Potts (April 3, 1865 – June 4, 1919[1]), who converted from the Episcopal Church to Catholicism in 1913.[6] Together they had five sons:[1]

  1. Augustus Gibson Paine III
  2. George Eustis Paine (1894–1953), was chairman of the board of the New York and Pennsylvania Company until his death. He married Helen (Ellis) Paine (1895–1948), and their son was State Senator George Eustis Paine (1920–1991)
  3. Alexander Brooks Paine
  4. Hugh Eustis Paine
  5. Peter Standish Paine, who was president of the New York and Pennsylvania Company

All his sons married and had children themselves.[1]

Four years after the passing of his first wife, he married Francisca Machado Warren (April 3, 1891 – February 8, 1981[7]), daughter of Minton and Salomé Machado Warren of Cambridge, at St. John's Memorial Chapel in Cambridge.[8] Together they had one daughter, Francisca Warren.[1] Minton Warren (d. 1907) was a Latin professor at Johns Hopkins and later Harvard University, while Salomé Machado was of Cuban background.[9]

Augustus G. Paine, Jr. was also the grandfather of the actress Molly McGreevey.

Architectural commissions

Augustus G. Paine, Jr. House, since the 1950s the Austrian Consulate General in New York

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.[10] The house was sold to the Austrian government in 1952, the Austrian Consulate General is located in it today.[11][12][13] Augustus G. Paine, Jr. was also based in Willsboro, New York, due to his paper mill being located there. Gilbert received commissions from Paine to construct the Essex County Bank in 1921.[14] In May 1930 Paine also donated a whole library to the town of Willsboro, in memory of his mother, in the sum of $150,000.[15] Both the bank and the library were constructed by Gilbert in the Neoclassical style.[16]

Paine also had Flat Rock Camp, his summer retreat on the shores of Lake Champlain in Willsboro, constructed for his family.[17]

Ornithology

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.[18] An article in The New Yorker on August 26, 1974, calls attention to this early list.[19]

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

References

Graves of Augustus G. Paine, Jr. and his second wife Francisca Warren in Woodlawn Cemetery, the Bronx
  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Augustus G. Paine". New York Times. October 24, 1947. Retrieved October 31, 2010.
  2. 1 2 "Grave of Augustus G. Paine and Charlotte M. Bedell Paine". Wikimedia Commons. 2010. Retrieved November 14, 2010.
  3. ↑ Observatory plot, Section 59, Lot 255-256
  4. ↑ Augustus Gibson Paine, Jr at Find a Grave
  5. ↑ "Grave of Augustus G. Paine, Jr.". Wikimedia Commons. 2010. Retrieved November 14, 2010.
  6. ↑ "Mrs. A.H. Paine, Jr., a Catholic Today; Leaves Her Communion with St. Mary the Virgin, Episcopal". New York Times. April 11, 1913. Retrieved October 31, 2010.
  7. ↑ "Grave of Francisca Warren Paine". Wikimedia Commons. 2010. Retrieved November 14, 2010.
  8. ↑ "A. G. Paine Jr. Marries; Union Club Member Weds Miss Francesca Warren in Cambridge.". New York Times. February 6, 1923. Retrieved October 31, 2010.
  9. ↑ 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.
  10. ↑ Doane, Ralph Harrington (May 1919). "The Residence of Augustus G. Paine, Esq.". The Architectural Review. New York: The Architectural Review, Inc. VIII (5): 123–126.
  11. ↑ "Austria Acquires Residence in City; Buys Clendenin Ryan's Home in New Foreign Service Area for Consulate General". New York Times. February 24, 1952. Retrieved October 31, 2010.
  12. ↑ "Streetscapes: 40 East 70th Street; A Growth Plan for a Neo-Georgian Garage". New York Times. April 26, 1992. Retrieved October 31, 2010.
  13. ↑ "Austrian Consulate General". Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs. 2010. Retrieved November 1, 2010.
  14. ↑ "Architecture of the Champlain Valley, Willsboro" (PDF). Adirondack Architectural Heritage. 2010. Archived (PDF) from the original on October 25, 2010. Retrieved November 1, 2010.
  15. ↑ "$150,000 Gift for Library; A.G. Paine Provides Memorial for Mother at Willsboro, N.Y.". New York Times. May 20, 1930. Retrieved October 31, 2010.
  16. ↑ "History". Paine Memorial Library. 2010. Retrieved November 14, 2010.
  17. ↑ "Flat Rock Camp". Adirondack Architectural Heritage. 2010. Archived from the original on October 25, 2010. Retrieved November 1, 2010.
  18. ↑ "List of birds of Central Park". Forest and Stream. New York: The Forest and Stream Publishing Company. XXVI (20): 386–387. June 10, 1886.
  19. ↑ Eugene Kinkead (August 26, 1974). "The Birds of Central Park". The New Yorker. New York. XXVI (20): 78.

External links

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