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 PAIGE. l'AINE. 455 the time chairman and clerk of the boards named. He has held the office of notary public ; has been a director in Southbridge National Hank, and a trustee of Southbridge Savings Bank more than thirty years. He is also a commissioner to qualify civil officers. He has served several years on various committees of the town, one of the most important being that to oppose its division by the Legislature in 1854. Mr. Paige was married in Southbridge, May 9, 1843, to Mercy, daughter of Har- vev Dresser, of Charlton, who died Sep- tember 14, 1852. He married his second wife, Ellen Jane Scholefield, of Dudley, February 20, 1856. His children are: Mary Elisabeth, born April 7, 1846, died Sep- tember J, 1848 ; Calvin D., born May 20, [848; Frank S., born May 18, 1857. The two sons are now doing business and living in Southbridge. Mr. Paige is not now in active business. lie has much public spirit, and takes great interest in town affairs, and finds consider- able time to attend to politics, being an ardent Republican. PAIGE, FRANK E., son of Francis B. and Kl/.ada (Haskins) Paige, was born in Amherst, Hampshire county, March 22, 1859. His early education was received in the schools of Amherst. He began life on the farm, and by industry has risen to his present position. He chose the profession of law, and having prepared himself by close ap- plication, was admitted to the Hampshire county bar at the age of twenty-one, being the youngest member up to that time ever admitted. Since that time he has had a large and successful practice in Amherst, where he now resides. He has been secretary and treasurer of the Hampshire Agricultural Society for several years ; in 1886 he was elected treasurer of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, and has charge of the finances of that institution. In 1887 he was elected to lake charge of the law department of the college, and each year has given a course of lectures. In [888 he was elected to the House of Representatives, as a Republican, serving as clerk of the agricultural committee. He has held many town offices, is promi- nent in Masonry, and for a long time has held important positions in the local organi- zations. During his legislative service he was the promoter and advocate of the yearly appro- priation of five thousand dollars by the State to the college of which he is treasurer, for the purpose of paying poor and needy students for labor on the farm, that they might be able to attend the college and ob- tain the educational training offered by the institution. He was also, upon the floor of the House, foremost in advocating the cause of the farmers of the Common- wealth. Mr. Paige is unmarried. He has trav- eled extensively, visiting nearly every part of the United States, and many foreign lands. PAINE, ROBERT TREAT, son of Charles Cushingand Fanny Cabot (Jackson) Paine, was born in Boston, October 28, 1835. -His great grandfather was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. He received his early educational training in the private and public schools of Boston, entering the Boston Latin school at ten, and graduating at fifteen. He has always regarded these five years as an invaluable training. Mr. Paine entered Harvard in 1851, and was graduated with honors in the class of 1855, among such distinguished classmates as Francis C. Barlow, Rev. Phillips Brooks, Alexander Agassiz, Theodore Lyman anil Frank 1!. Sanborn. Mr. Paine studied law at Harvard one year, and then passed two years in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, France and Spain ; returned to Boston in 1858 ; studied law in the offices of Richard H. Dana and Francis E. Parker one year, anil was admitted to the bar in 1859. He practiced till 1870, when he retired from active business, in- tending to devote the remainder of his life to various benevolent enterprises, one of the first of which was the building of Trin- ity church, which took a large share of his time from [872 to '76, he being one of the sub-committee of three who had charge of the work. He was chosen the first president of the Associated Charities at its origin in 1878, and has held that office ever since. He organized the Wells Memorial Institute in 1.S79, the largest workinginen's club in the United States, and having now over seventeen hundred members. He became its first president, which office he still retains, and raised the various subscriptions which have paid out over ninety thousand dollars for the memorial building. Mr. Paine was married in Boston, April 24, 1S62, to Lydia Williams, daughter of 1 leorge Williams and Anne (Pratt) Lyman. Her father was the son of Theodore Ly-