Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-15
GEN. Fl. E. PAINE DEAD
VETERAN OF CIVIL WAR EXPIRES
IN EIGHTY-FIRsT YEAR.

General Halbert e. Paine, a Union veteran
of the civil war, and lawyer of national
repute who resided at 1871 Columbia road.
died last night at private sanitarium in
this city after a lingering Illness. General
Paine had been in failing health for many
months and succumbed to a complication
of diseases. He was eighty years of age.
The funeral will be held Monday, but the
details have not yet been completed.
Halbert E. Paine was born in Chardon,
Ohio, February 4, 1896. After his gradu-
alton at Western Reserve University in
1916 he studied law, and was admitted &c
the bar of Cleveland in 1S4S. He removed
to Milwaukee in 1857. He entered the army
in May, 1861, as colonel of the 9Th Wis
conSin Regiment, and became brigadier
general of volunteers March 13, 1863. He
served mainly in the army of the gulf,
and lost leg in the last assault on Port
Hudson La, where he commanded the Sd
Division of the 18th Corps.
He defended Washington during Gen.
Jubal A. Earlys raid in 1864, was brevetted
major general of volunteers on March il,
1865, and resigned May of that year. He
was afterward elected to Congress from
Wisconsin as a republican, serving from
December A. 1865, until March 3, 1871 and
instrumental in the passage of bill,
dated December 10, 1869. that provided for
taking meteorological observations in the
interior of the continent.
General Paine was delegate to the Phila-
delphia loyalists' convention in 1866, and
after the expiration of his third term in
Congress practiced law in this city, where
he was United States commissioner of pat
ents from 1879 until 1881. He was the au-
thor of Paine on Contested Elections
Authority on Elections.
General Paine was authority on the
election laws of the country and was fire.
quently called into conference by the At
torney General on intricate legal problems.
He was the author of many important
legal works. His book on contested cleo
tions was used as reference in the Hayes
Tilden election controversy. He was also
an authority on patent law and had COM
piled a treatise on this subject.
A man of exceedingly courteous bearing
and scholarly attachments he won and kept
his friends easily. He is said never to have
made an enemy. He was a gentleman OF
the old school and never lost any of the
kindly traits of character which he Inherit
ed. In recent years he had not enjoyed the
best health, but up to the last he retained
the same brilliancy of intellect which made
him famous three decades ago in Congress
and before the courts of the country.
Practiced Law in New York.
In New York city Gen. Paine formed a
partnership with Carl Schurz, and for sew
eral years thereafter was engaged in many
celebrated cases. He was counsel for many
OF the Indian tribes in their claims against
the United States government He paid
special attention to the claims of the Choc-
taw and Chickasaw nations, and In his
prime received some Of the largest fees
ever paid to an attorney in such cases. He
Is said to have enjoyed an intimate ac-
quaintance and personal friendship with all
the prominent statesmen of his generation
and was held In high esteem by many Pres
idents. His wife and one daughter Mrs.
Story b. Ladd, survive him.