Augustus G. Paine, Jr.

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Augustus Gibson Paine, Jr. ( October 19, 1866 - October 23, 1947 ) was an American paper manufacturer and banker .

Life

He was born in New York City , the son of Augustus G. Paine, Sr. (1839-1915) and Charlotte M. Bedell Paine (1840-1929) . He received private education in the United States and Europe.

In his professional career, he became President of the New York and Pennsylvania Company, based at 230 Park Avenue. The New York and Pennsylvania Company was a leading paper maker in the country and a major supplier to the Curtis Publishing Company , publisher of magazines such as the Ladies' Home Journal , The Saturday Evening Post, and others. He died at his home at 31 East 69th Street at the age of 81 after a long illness and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx.

In 1888 he married Maud Eustis Potts (born April 3, 1865, † June 4, 1919), who converted from the Anglican Church to Catholicism in 1913 . They had five sons together:

  1. Augustus Gibson Paine III;
  2. George Eustis, who became Chairman of the Board of Directors of the New York and Pennsylvania Company in the 1940s;
  3. Alexander Brooks;
  4. Hugh Eustis;
  5. Peter Standish, later President of the New York and Pennsylvania Company

All of his sons married and had children in turn.

Four years after the death of his first wife, he married Francisca Machado Warren (born April 3, 1891, † February 8, 1981), daughter of Minton and Salomé Machado Warren from Cambridge, in St. John's Memorial Chapel in Cambridge. They had a daughter together, Francisca Warren.

Minton Warren († 1907) was a Latin professor at Johns Hopkins and later Harvard University . Salomé Machado was of Cuban descent.

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

Construction contracts

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

Augustus G. Paine, Jr. hired architect C. P. H. Gilbert to undertake several construction projects. Gilbert built the Paine city residence on the Upper East Side of New York at 31 East 69th Street in 1917–1918. The house was sold by his widow after Paine's death, the Austrian state bought the house in 1952 and the Austrian Consulate General has been based there ever since. Paine had his second residence in Willsboro, New York , as his paper mill was there. There Gilbert received other commissions, such as the Paine-controlled bank in Essex County in 1921. In May 1930, Paine donated an entire library to the city of Willsboro for a sum of $ 150,000 in memory of his mother . Both the bank and the library were built by Gilbert in the neoclassical style.

Paine also had Flat Rock Camp, his summer residence on the shores of Lake Champlain in Willsboro, built for himself and his family.

ornithologist

Paine was an avid hobby ornithologist . Together with Lewis B. Woodruff, at the young age of 19 or 20, he made a list of over 100 species of birds in Central Park . This was the first official, scientific list of birds in Central Park and was published in Forest and Stream on June 10, 1886. An article in The New Yorker dated August 26, 1974 mentions this list.

His collection of around 1,200 bird specimens was later donated by his family to the American Museum of Natural History under the name “Paine-Jordan Bird Collection”. A copy of the original catalog and documents related to the collection were given to the museum archive.

Web links

Commons : Augustus G. Paine, Jr.  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files

Individual evidence

Tomb of Augustus G. Paine, Jr. and his second wife Francisca Warren in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx
  1. ^ Tomb of Augustus G. Paine, Jr.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Nekrolog Augustus G. Paine (English) , New York Times . October 24, 1947. Retrieved January 12, 2011. 
  3. ↑ a b grave of Augustus G. Paine and Charlotte M. Bedell Paine
  4. ^ Observatory Division, Section 59, Parcels 255–256.
  5. ↑ Mrs. AH Paine, Jr., a Catholic Today; Leaves Her Communion with St. Mary the Virgin, Episcopal (English) , New York Times . April 11, 1913. Retrieved January 12, 2011. 
  6. ↑ Grave of Francisca Warren Paine
  7. ^ AG Paine Jr. Marries; Union Club Member Weds Miss Francesca Warren in Cambridge (English) , New York Times . February 6, 1923. Retrieved January 12, 2011. 
  8. ^ Warren, Salomé Machado . In: John William Leonard (ed.): Woman's Who's Who of America . The American Commonwealth Company, New York 1914, p. 851 ( Woman's Who's who of America. [Accessed January 16, 2011] (Mrs. Minton Warren), 105 Irving St., Boston, Mass. Born Puerto Principe, Island of Cuba; last. Juan Francisco and Elizabeth Frances ( Jones) Machado; grad. Smith Coll., AB '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).
  9. ↑ Ralph Harrington Doane: The Residence of Augustus G. Paine, Esq. . In: The Architectural Review, Inc. (Ed.): The Architectural Review . VIII, No. 5, New York, May 1919, pp. 123-126.
  10. ^ Austria Acquires Residence in City; Buys Clendenin Ryan's Home in New Foreign Service Area for Consulate General . In: New York Times , February 24, 1952. Retrieved January 15, 2011. 
  11. ^ Streetscapes: 40 East 70th Street; A Growth Plan for a Neo-Georgian Garage . In: New York Times , April 26, 1992. Retrieved January 15, 2011. 
  12. ^ Austrian Consulate General . Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs. 2010. Retrieved January 15, 2011.
  13. ↑ Architecture of the Champlain Valley, Willsboro (PDF; 492 kB) Adirondack Architectural Heritage. 2010. Retrieved January 15, 2011.
  14. ↑ $ 150,000 Gift for Library; AG Paine Provides Memorial for Mother at Willsboro, NY . In: New York Times , May 20, 1930. Retrieved January 15, 2011. 
  15. ^ History . Paine Memorial Library. 2010. Accessed on January 15, 2011.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.willsborony.com  
  16. ↑ Flat Rock Camp . Adirondack Architectural Heritage. 2010. Retrieved January 15, 2011.
  17. ^ List of birds of Central Park . In: The Forest and Stream Publishing Company (Ed.): Forest and Stream . XXVI, No. 20, New York, June 10, 1886, pp. 386-387.
  18. ^ Eugene Kinkead: The Birds of Central Park . In: The New Yorker . XXVI, No. 20, New York, p. 78.
personal data
SURNAME Paine, Augustus G. Jr.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Paine, Augustus Gibson Jr.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American papermaker and banker
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1866
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 1947