. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . l the honors,political or otherwise,that could be offeredto me. All of of this use-ful and worthy or-ganization arepersonally borne byhim, and he devotesmuch of his time toits affairs, instructingthe children by illus-t r a t e d lectures o ftravel and curiousrelics from foreignlands. An extensiveand experienced trav-eller, Mr. Paine pos-sesses the rare ])owerof making himselfpeculiarly interestingto children, and as helikes the work, bothparti
. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . l the honors,political or otherwise,that could be offeredto me. All of of this use-ful and worthy or-ganization arepersonally borne byhim, and he devotesmuch of his time toits affairs, instructingthe children by illus-t r a t e d lectures o ftravel and curiousrelics from foreignlands. An extensiveand experienced trav-eller, Mr. Paine pos-sesses the rare ])owerof making himselfpeculiarly interestingto children, and as helikes the work, bothparties to t h e a r -rangement are con-tented. John S. Paine was born at Uxbridge, Mass., sixty-eight yearsago. He attended the public school until he was twelveyears old, and received the rest of his education at theUxbridge Academy. At the age of twenty he left hisfathers farm and entered the country store of P. Whit-ing &: Son, at Whitings\ille, Mass. After remaining therefor two years he came to Boston, where he began hiscareer, his whole capital amounting to considerably lessthan five dollars. Here he took the quickest means of. JOHN S. PAINE acquiring a knowledge of the furniture trade, and soonbecame a practical cabinet-maker. About forty yearsago he entered into a partnership with his brother-in-law,I^. B. Shearer, which continued until the death of thatgentleman, about twenty-four years ago. Mr. Painethen continued in business for himself in the neighbor-hood in Boston, where his well-known establishmentnow stands. He conducted his rapidly-growing businessalone untiPseven years ago, when his son, brother and nephew becamemembers of the firm,his n e p h e w, M , being a sonof his former years agoMr. Paine bought theland on which h ebuilt the presentimmense manufac-tory and building is onehundred and fiftyfeet square, and con-tains seven floors. Atone time the firm hadbranch establish-ments at Chicago,New York and NewOrleans. Mr. Paines
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