Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1862-02-07
From the Rutland Herald.
THE MEN OF VERMONT.
l3. CHARLES PAINE.

Elijah Paine, of whom we shall make
more particular mention in another arti-
Gle, came to Vermont in 1884, and had
four sons, all of whom became eminently
distinguished in their several professions.
The first and only surviving son, Wartyn
Paine, III. d., L. L. D., is widely known
as medical practitioner and Professor in
the Medical School of the University of
New York, and as an author of several
standard medical works,-the second was
Elijah Paine an able lawyer and eminent
jurist well known for his celebrated deci-
sion, in the Lennon slave case. that St1ves
vol,mtarily brought into a free State By
their master, become tpso .tacto free.
George, the fourth and youngest. gradua-
ted at Dartmouth College in 1917, be-
came lawyer in Providence, R. l.. and
died at an early age, after having given
promise of talents and requirements equal
to those of his brothers.
Charles Paine, the thirteenth Governor
of Vermont, was the third son, and was
born at Williamstown, in the County of
Orange, and State of Vermont, on the
18th day of April, 1893, and graduated
in 1920 at Harvard College, Massachu-
sctts, where his father and two of his
brothers had been previously educated.
He did not study for profession, but.
Immediately after graduation, turned his
attention to the manufacturing business,
in which his father bad lonG been engaged.
A man of his energy, talents and
business attainments was, of course, sue
ccssful.
Hc represented the town of Mortified
in the General Assembly of Vermont in
1923 and 1929. "
In 1885, at the early age of thirty-six
he was a candidate for the office of Gov
ernor, but was unsuccessful. He was
again the candidate of the Whig Party
for this Office in 1871, and received plu-
rality vote of the people and was subse-
quently elected by the Legislature in joint
assembly, and was reelected in 1912 by
a majority of the popular vote; at the
close of his second term he declined re-
election. In lS4l much opposition was
manifested to him, both in the public
prints and among the people, on account
of his age, he being at that time the
youngest man who had ever been prom
inent candidate for that Office, and with a
single exception, and that one of the same
age, is the youngest man that has ever
filled the office of Governor of Vermont.
The most important act of his admins
tration was the revision of the laws in
reference to the Grand List by which tax
payers were allowed to deduct from the
amount of their personal property the
debts owing hy them--and to pay taxes
only on the balance ;--previous to this
tire they had been assessed for the whole
amount of their personal property, regard
less of the amount of their Indebtedness
and thus the State, in numberless instan.
ces, virtuaAy received taxes on the same
property twice. 'i uE j !. fsdI
But Charles Paine rendered far more
important service to the State than he
could if he had filled the gubernatorial
chair for life, for he was the pioneer as
well as the most important man in the
construction of the Rail Roads of Yer
mont. GAS such, especially, the STATE
may be proud of him; as such he was tc
the State its greatest benefactor and as
such his name will descend to posterity
among those of her most illustrious citi
zens." ,s3 H.bl.1u0 89sJ go.gsIy
Through his influence, more than o.
any other, without question, was the Char
ter of the Vermont Central Rail Roat
obtained, and the Road successfully com
pleted, of this Corporation he was th'
first President. Without doubt, also
the Vermont and Canada Bail Road, tn,
Champlain and st. Lawrence Raj Road
and the ogdcusburgh Rail Road, ows
theirrpress4t existence to oshhiiHt him .A vnao