Born in
Lemont, Illinois, Paine was the son of Reverend Samuel Delahaye Paine. Rev. Paine was born in London and served in the British Army during the
Crimean War before emigrating to America in 1856. Rev. Paine served as a lieutenant in the
2nd Maine Battery during the
American Civil War and later was chaplain-in-chief of the
Grand Army of the Republic. Paine worked as a reporter for twelve dollars a week. He also frequented a
soda fountain in a cigar shop owned by Cuban revolutionary
José Alejandro Huau. Paine attended
Hillhouse High School in
New Haven, Connecticut and then
Yale University. and Philbrook Ten Eyck Paine, born 1910. In 1908, he moved to Shankhassick Farm in
Durham, New Hampshire. From 1918 to 1920 he represented Durham in the
New Hampshire House of Representatives and from 1919 to 1921 served on the
New Hampshire Board of Education. During
World War I, he worked for the
Committee on Public Information and the
United States Department of the Navy, observing and writing about
Allied naval forces. He was also a commissioner of the
United States Fuel Administration in 1918. ==Bibliography==