Augustus G. Paine, Jr.

Augustus Gibson Paine, Jr. (October 19, 1866 – October 23, 1947) was an American paper manufacturer and bank official.

Born in New York City, he was the son of Augustus G. Paine, Sr. (1839–1915) and Charlotte M. Bedell Paine (1840–1929). He was educated privately in the United States and Europe. He became president of the New York and Pennsylvania Company, which was based in 230 Park Avenue. The New York and Pennsylvania Company was one of the leading paper manufacturers in the country and a major supplier to the Curtis Publishing Company, the publisher of the Ladies' Home Journal, The Saturday Evening Post and others. He died in his home at 31 East 69th Street after a long illness at the age of 81, and was laid to rest in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx.

In 1888 he married Maud Eustis Potts (April 3, 1865 – June 4, 1919), who converted from the Episcopal Church to Catholicism in 1913. Together they had five sons:

All his sons married and had children themselves.

Four years after the passing of his first wife, he married Francisca Machado Warren (April 3, 1891 – February 8, 1981), daughter of Minton and Salomé Machado Warren of Cambridge, at St. John's Memorial Chapel in Cambridge. Together they had one daughter, Francisca Warren. Minton Warren (d. 1907) was a Latin professor at Johns Hopkins and later Harvard University, while Salomé Machado was of Cuban background.

Augustus G. Paine, Jr. was also the grandfather of the actress Molly McGreevey.

Paine was closely associated with the architect C. P. H. Gilbert, who received a number of commissions from him, such as his townhouse in New York's Upper East Side on 31 East 69th Street in 1917–18. The house was sold to the Austrian government in 1952, the Austrian Consulate General is located in it today. Augustus G. Paine, Jr. was also based in Willsboro, New York, due to his paper mill being located there. Gilbert received commissions from Paine to construct the Essex County Bank in 1921. In May 1930 Paine also donated a whole library to the town of Willsboro, in memory of his mother, in the sum of $150,000. Both the bank and the library were constructed by Gilbert in the Neoclassical style.

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