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all occasions. His only style was the style of good fellowship and 
kindness. AY See ; = 
Quitting the army with an honorable record, he purchased a small 
farm in the vicinity of St. Paul and embarked quite extensively in 
the dairy business. 
He was one of the 12 or 15 original Grangers who organized the 
North Star Grange of Patrons of Husbandry, the first in the State, 
and probably the first in the United States. He was elected Secre- 
tary of the State Grange, serving the first two years without pay, 
and afterwards was repeatedly re-elected, holding the office until the - 
day of his death. He was also elected Secretary of the State Ag- 
ricultural Society in 1872, re-elected in 1873, and again re-elected 
in 1874, holding this position also until he died. / 
In 1873 he was Chairman of the State Central Committee of the 
opposition or Grange element which held a political State Conven- 
tion in September, at Owatonna. . 
For some years prior to his death Capt. Paist’s health was feeble. ° 
His disease was consumption, contracted during the hardships and 
exposures of the war. But his energy and indomitable spirit would 
not succomb. He would ride to his office in the city and personally 
supervise the important correspondence and other business con- 
nected with the State Fair, when unable to set up and while occu- 
pying a bed in his office. But he finally yielded when literally 
worn out, and on the 12th of October the fading leaves of autumn 
gave the signal for his departure and he quietly expired at his home 
in the presence of his faithful wife and affectionate children, uni- 
versally lamented by his acquaintances and friends and without an 
enemy in the world. The large funeral procession which followed 
his remains to the tomb on an inclement autumn day attested the 
respect and esteem in which he was held, and evinced the faculty 
in which he excelled many abler men—that of attaching to himself 
the warm sympathies of a multitude of friends. His heart was as 
guileless as that of a child and his life illustrated that— 
‘¢ The brave are the tenderest— 
The loving are the daring.” 
