HENRY WARREN PAINE. 433 



a son of Lemuel and Jane Thomson (Warren) Paine. His father was 

 a lawyer by profession, and in later years engaged in literary pursuits. 

 His mother was a niece of General Joseph Warren, of Bunker Hill 

 memory. His early education was well cared for, and he made 

 rapid progress in his studies, taking little hand in the ordinary sports 

 of youth. When duly fitted, he entered the College (now Colby 

 University) at Waterville, Maine, in 1826, and graduated with the 

 highest honors in the Class of 1830. In his Senior year he was 

 also Principal of the Waterville Academy, and served one year as 

 Tutor in the College. He then began the study of law in the office 

 of his uncle, Samuel S. Warren, and continued it with William Clark, 

 of Hallowell, and then for one year in the Law School of Harvard 

 University, and was admitted to the Bar in Maine in 1834. 



In the course of twenty years of practice at Hallowell, Mr. Paine 

 had attained a distinguished position in the profession, had been for 

 five years Attorney for Kennebec County, and had served for several 

 years (between 1836 and 1853) as a Representative of Hallowell in 

 the State Legislature. Tempting offers of further political promotion, 

 and even a seat upon the Supreme Bench of the State, were declined. 

 It seems to have been his purpose to adhere strictly to the line of the 

 profession he had chosen. Chief Justice Appleton spoke of him as 

 "a profound and learned lawyer, as well as an accomplished advo- 

 cate." It is evident that by the year 1853 he had determined to seek 

 a wider field for his exertions in the metropolis of New England. 

 Mason, Webster, Fletcher, Choate, and many others, had done the like 

 before him. These were indeed perilous examples to be followed, 

 unless a man felt quite sure of his own strength. Perhaps he had 

 heard of the remark of Mr. Webster, that " there was always room 

 enough up above." In 1854 he had removed his office to Boston, 

 and established his residence in Cambridge. Not long afterwards he 

 was engaged with Rufus Choate and F. O. J. Smith in the impeach- 

 ment trial of Judge Woodbury Davis at Portland, on which occasion 

 it was remarked that " Paine furnished the logic, Choate the rhetoric, 

 and Smith the slang." 



For the rest of his life Mr. Paine steadily pursued his professional 

 avocations in Boston, where he soon acquired both a large business 

 and a high standing at the Bar. It is said that his charges were 

 always moderate. With a practice sufficiently lucrative for all his 

 needs, he showed no grasping eagerness for excessive wealth. Indeed, 

 a great lawyer is apt to think that, if a man desires to be very rich, 

 be should quit the law and go into the oil business. For many years, 

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