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 456 PAINE. PAINE. man, a distinguished Boston merchant at the beginning of this century. Of this union are five children : Edith (Mrs. John H. Storer), Robert Treat Paine, Jr., Ethel Lyman, George Lyman, and Lydia Lyman Paine. Mr. Paine's winter residence is 6 Joy Street, Boston, and his summer residence is at Waltham. Mr. Paine represented Waltham in the House of Representatives in 1884; has been a member of the vestry of Trinity church, Boston, for fifteen years ; a mem- ber of the executive committee of the Episcopal city mission, and also of the ROBERT TREAT PAINE. Society for the Suppression of Vice. He is one of the trustees of donations to the Protestant Episcopal church, and is presi- dent of the YVorkingmeii's Co-operative Hank, VVorkingmen's Building Association, Loan Association, and Congress of VVork- ingmen's clubs. Mr. Paine was a candidate for congres- sional honors in the 5th Massachusetts district in 1884, as a Mugwump and Dem- ocrat. He had always been a Republican (and Free Soiler) till the nomination of Mr. Blaine. He is vice-president of the Children's Aid Society, of which his mother was one of the founders, and a director as Ion"; as she lived. Starting in life with no money, his sav- ings at the law were so judiciously in- vested in real estate and railroad and min- ing enterprises, that at thirty-five years of age he gave up business with an independ- ent fortune of his own making. In 1S87 Mr. Paine gave ten thousand dollars to Harvard College to endow a fellowship for the study of "the ethical problems of society, the effects of legis- lation, governmental administration, and private philanthropy, to ameliorate the lot of the mass of mankind." This eminent philanthropist has done something more than theorize. Besides his twenty-five published pamphlets and addresses, all for the public weal, he has thrown himself and his wealth into the work of raising the unfortunate, improv- ing the condition, and especially the homes, of the working-classes, strengthening pri- vate morals and public " law and order." PA1NH, Timothy Otis, son of Fred- eric and Abiel (Ware) Paine, was born in Winslow, Kennebec county, Maine, Octo- ber 13, 1824. Having availed himself of the common school training in his native town, he pre- pared for college in the Waterville Liberal Institute, i84o-'43. He entered Waterville College (now Colby University) in 1843, and was graduated in the class of 1847. from 184.S to '52 he studied and worked as an artist, and then prepared for the ministry, which he entered in 1853, and in which he has continued up to the present time. In 1866 he became professor of Hebrew in the theological school at Waltham, afterwards at Boston, and in 1889 at Cam- bridge; and is now professor emeritus of the sacred languages. He has been pastor of the East Bridgewater society of the New Jerusalem church since 1856. Mr. Paine was married in Medford, October 13, 1856, to Agnes, daughter of Adonis and Catherine (Holman) Howard. They have had eight children: Edith Mrs. George Benedict), Howard, Miriam deceased), Joseph (deceased), Isabel (Mrs. Henry Hastings Grant), Bertha, James (deceased), and Herbert Ware Paine. Mr. Paine is a member and honorary member of several literary societies 111 England, Nova Scotia, and the United States. He received the degree of LL. D. from Colby in 1875. He is the author of "Solomon's Temple" (1861), and "The Holy Houses" (1885, Houghton, Mifflin & Co.).