Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Peter Standish PAINE
Deceased Name: PETER S. PAINE, Sr.
Age 95, of 240 South Beach Rd., Hobe Sound, FL, born July 5, 1909 at Flat Rock Camp, Willsboro, N.Y., died at his Willsboro seasonal home, Boquette Farm, October 26, 2004. During his active business career, he also maintained a town house in Manhattan. Physically and mentally vigorous to the very end, he suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and died peacefully surrounded by his wife of 71 years, Ellen Lea Paine and his immediate family. His beloved Norwich terrier, Rosie was at his bedside. Services and interment were private. There will be a Memorial celebration of his life in Willsboro next summer.
In addition to his wife, he is survived by his son, Peter S. Paine, Jr. and daughter-in-law, Patty Paine; three grandchildren and five great-grandchildren; plus his sister, Francisca Paine Irwin.
A graduate of Kent School and Princeton, class of 1932, he served in Army Air Force Intelligence in the Pacific, joining the staff of the Air Force Commander, General "Hap" Arnold, in Washington in 1944. Following the war, he took over as President of the New York and Pennsylvania Paper Company, founded in Willsboro in 1885 by his grandfather, "Col." Augustus G. Paine and father, Augustus G. Paine Jr. After the sale of NYPEN, he became CEO of Great Northern Nekoosa Corporation (of which his grandfather was a founding shareholder and director) in 1961 serving in that capacity until his retirement in 1975. During his tenure, GNN was transformed from a small, Maine-based newsprint company to a Fortune 500 enterprise with major mills throughout the south and in central Wisconsin.
A director of: the Irving Trust Company, (for over 40 years), Consolidated Edison, Continental Insurance Company, the Delaware and Hudson Railroad and the Curtis Publishing Company, he also served as a Trustee of the Astor Foundation and the Bodmin Foundation and as President of the Museum of the City of New York.
Upon his retirement from GNN, he became Chairman of the Juilliard School of Music for ten years, which later awarded him an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters.
In Hobe Sound, he was a member for decades of the Jupiter Island Club and served on its Board. He was also a member of the Hobe Sound Yacht Club.
In the North Country of New York, he served for over 50 years as a director and then as Chairman of Champlain National Bank, Willsboro, founded in the early years of the 20th century by his father and other residents of the area. In addition he was a Trustee of Fort Ticonderoga (at the time of his appointment, one of only two non-Pell family members), and of the Paine Memorial Free Library in Willsboro.
A vigorous outdoorsman, he was as committed to the conservation of the farms and forests of his native Champlain Valley as he was to the social and economic well being of the area's residents. Working with the Adirondack Nature Conservancy, he and his family have contributed in numerous ways, to the conservation of around 10,000 acres of working farms and forests and nature preserves, plus some 16 miles of shoreline.
A kind gentleman with a sparkling wit, he will be deeply missed by his family, colleagues and friends.
Donations in his memory may be made to: The Juilliard School of Music in NYC , The Adirondack Nature Conservancy in Keene Valley, NY, Fort Ticonderoga in Ticonderoga, NY, The Florida Nature Conservancy in Altamonte Springs, FL or the Jupiter Hospital in Jupiter, FL.
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