Augustus G. Paine, Jr.
Augustus Gibson Paine, Jr. ( October 19, 1866 *, † October 23, 1947 ) was an American paper manufacturer and banker.
Life
As the son of Augustus G. Paine, Sr. (1839-1915) and Charlotte M. Bedell Paine (1840-1929) He was born in New York City. He received a private education in the United States and Europe.
In his professional career, he was president of the New York and Pennsylvania Company, which has its headquarters at 230 Park Avenue. The New York and Pennsylvania Company was one of the leading paper manufacturer in the country and a major supplier of Curtis Publishing Company, publisher of magazines such as the Ladies' Home Journal, The Saturday Evening Post and others. He died at the age of 81 at his home at 31 East 69th Street after a long illness, and was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx.
In 1888 he married Maud Eustis Potts (* April 3, 1865, † June 4, 1919 ), the converted from the Anglican Church to Catholicism in 1913. Together they had five sons:
All his sons were married and had children themselves.
Four years after the death of his first wife he married Francisca Machado Warren ( * 3 April 1891; † February 8, 1981 ), daughter of Minton and Salomé Machado Warren of Cambridge, in the St. John's Memorial Chapel in Cambridge. Together they had a daughter, Francisca Warren.
Minton Warren ( † 1907) was 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.
Works contracts
Augustus G. Paine, Jr. commissioned the architect C. P. H. Gilbert with several construction projects. Gilbert built in 1917-18, the city residence of Paine in the Upper East Side of New York, at 31 East 69th Street. The house was sold after the death of Paine by his widow, in 1952 acquired the Austrian state of the house and the Austrian Consulate General has since found his seat Paine had in Willsboro, New York his second home, since his paper mill was there. There Gilbert received further orders, such as the controlled Paine Bank in Essex County in 1921. Gave in May 1930 Paine, in memory of his mother, an entire library of the city of Willsboro, with a sum of $ 150,000. Both the bank and the library were built in the Neoclassical style of Gilbert.
Paine also had Flat Rock Camp, built his summer residence on the shores of Lake Champlain in Willsboro, for himself and his family.
Ornithologist
Paine was an avid hobby ornithologist. Together with Lewis B. Woodruff he created at the young age of 19 or 20 a list of birds in Central Park, which attracted more than 100 species. This was the first official scientific list of the birds in Central Park and was published in Forest and Stream on June 10, 1886. An article in The New Yorker on August 26, 1974 mentioned in this list.
His collection of about 1,200 bird specimens was given later 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 relating to the collection were given to the museum archive.