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army corps, and was brevetted major-general of volunteers, Jan, 15, 1865, He served under Gen- eral Sherman in North Carolina in command of the 3d division lOtli army corps, and after the surrender of General Johnston was placed in command of the district of Newbern until No- vember, 1865. He was mustered out of the vol- unteer service, Jan, 15, 1866. After 1866 he was connected with the management of railroad corporations, and was for many years a direc- tor of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, the Mexican Central and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroads. He was married ^larch 26, 1867, to Julia, daughter of John and Mary Anna (Lee) Bryant. He headed the syndicate of yachtsmen that built the sloop-yacht Puritan in 1885, and successfully defended the cup from the British sloop Genesta. He later became sole owner of the Puritan. In 1886 he built the Mayflower which defeated the Galatea, and in 1887 the Volun- teer which outsailed the TJiistle. These yachts were designed by Edward Burgess. In February, 1888, the New York Yacht club, of which he was a member, presented him with a silver cup in recognition of his triple defence of America's cup. In 1897 President McKinley appointed him, together with Edward O, Wolcott and Adlai E. Stevenson, a special envoy to Great Britain, France and Germany, with a view to securing by international agreement a fixity of relative value between gold and silver as money.

PAINE, Eleazer A., soldier, was born in Park- man, Geauga county, Ohio, Sept. 10, 1815 ; son of Hendrick E. and Hai-riet (Ellsworth) Paine ; grandson of Eleazer and Anne (Ellsworth) Paine, and a descendant of Stephen Paine, of Hingham, Mass. He was graduated from the U.S. Militarj' academy in 1839, and promoted 2d lieutenant, 1st infantry, July 1, 1839. He served on General Tay- lor's staff in the Florida war, 1839-40, and resigned his commission in the U.S. army, Oct. 11, 1840. He was U.S. deputy marshal for Ohio, 1842-45 ; lieutenant-colonel in the Ohio militia, 1842-45, and brigadier-general, 1845-48. He practised law in Painesville, Oliio, 1843-48, and in Mon- mouth, III., 1848-61, and was a representative in the state legislature of Illinois, 1853-54. He was commissioned colonel of the 9th Illinois volun- teer regiment, July 3, 1861. He commanded a brigade at Paducah, Ky., Sept. 27-Dec. 24, 1861, and at Cairo, 111., January-February, 1862 ; was in command of the 4th division of Pope's army in the operations against New Madrid, Island No. 10, Fort Pillow and Memphis, in March and April 1862, and in the attack and siege of Corinth in May 1863. He was on leave of absence, July 13, to Aug. 12, 1862 ; was in command of his divi- sion under Rosecrans, and was by him sent to strengthen Buell's army ; was subsequently in

command of the district of west Tennessee, Au- gust-September, 1862 ; of Gallatin, Tenn., and of tlie district of Western Kentucky, July 18-Sept. 11, 1864, and on waiting orders September, 1864, to April, 1865. He resigned his commission April 5, 1865. After the war he engaged in business. He died in Jersey City, N.J., Dec. 16, 1882.

PAINE, Elijah, senator, was born in Brook- lyn, Conn., Jan. 21, 1757 ; son of Seth and Mabel (Tyler) Paine, and grandson of Seth Paine of Pomfret, Conn. He entered Harvard college in 1774, left to enter the American army, and was graduated A.B., 1781, A.M., 1783. He was admitted to tlie bar in 1784 ; removed to Wind- sor, Vt., where, besides conducting a law busi- ness, he cultivated a farm. He subsequently opened a settlement at Williamstown, where he es- tablished a broadcloth factory employing 200 men, erected a saw and grist mill, and built a turnpike to Montpelier at a cost of §10.000, which he pre- sented to the state. He had at one time a flock of 1500 merino sheep on his farm, besides im- proved breeds of horses and cattle. He was a member and secretary of the convention to re- vise the state constitution in 1786, and was ap- pointed a commissioner to settle and close the controversy between Vermont and New York in 1789. He was a representative in the Vermont legislature, 1787-1791 ; was judge of the superior court of Vermont, 1791-94 ; was elected to the U.S. senate by the Federalist legislature as suc- cessor to Stephen R. Bradley, taking his seat Dec. 7, 1795, serving till March 3, 1801, and was judge of the United States district court of Ver- mont, 1801-42. He was married, June 7, 1790, to Sarali, daughter of John Porter, a lawyer of Ply- mouth, N.H., and had four sons : Martyn (q.v.); Elijah (q.v.); Charles (q.v.), and George, a law- yer, who removed to Marsellon, Ohio, and died aged twenty-nine years. He was a member of the American Antiquarian society, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, president of the Vermont Colonization society ; a charter trustee of Middlebury college, 1800-09, a trustee of Dartmouth college, 1806-29, and a lib- eral benefactor of the University of Vermont, The honorary degree of A.B. was conferred upon him by Dartmouth in 1786 and that of LL.D. by Harvard in 1812 and by the University of Ver- mont in 1825. He made the speech of welcome when Lafaj'ette visited Vermont. He died in Williamstown, Vt., April 28, 1842.

PAINE, Ephraim, delegate, was born in Can- terbury, Conn., Aug. 19, 1730 ; son of Joshua and Re'becca (Sparrow) Paine ; grandson of Thomas and Hannah (Shaw) Paine and of Jonathan Spar- row, and a descendant of Thomas Paine, the im- migrant, who settled in Eastham, Mass. Joshua Paine removed to Nine Partners, N._Y., and Eph-