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GRANITE WORKS
PAINE-FISHBURN GRANITE CO.
As early as 1887 H. J. Mayer was conduct
ing a granite and marble works. Ira T. Paine
purchased Mayer's plant in 1888. This es
tablishment was first near the present loca
tion, and later for many years was on Second
street, near the City Hall. In 1905 the con
cem was incorporated as the Paine Marble
& Granite Works, by Ira T. Paine, Charles
Beal and Bayard H. Paine, and in 1910 was
reincorporated as the Paine-Fishburn Granite
Co. The officers of the company are at the
present, and through most of its business
career have been, as follows : Ira T. Paine,
president; D. H. Fishburn, vice-president;
Bayard H. Paine, secretary, and A. A. Tooher.
treasurer. The company built the present fine
two-story brick structure on Walunt street,
between Third and Front, in 1909. It is
now operaed as the Paine-Fishburn Granite
Co. This company sells its goods all through
western Nebraska, and into Wyoming and
the other neighboring states to the west, and
keeps a half dozen representatives on the
.road, employing an average of twenty people
The Paine-Fishburn plant is the largest in
its line in the state outside of Omaha, being
fully equipped with pneumatic and electric
machines and traveling cranes.
For a time another granite and marble
works was conducted as the Grand Island
Marble Works, with W. D. Glenn, president,
E. E. Glenn, vice-president, and Rose E.
Hanson, secretary, but this plant went out of
business within the last two years.

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BAYARD H. PAINE. —Judge Bayard H. Paine, was elected Judge of the Eleventh Judicial District in 1916 and has enjoyed his work very much in this 'widely extended dis trict of eleven counties. Bayard H. Paine was born on a farm near Painesville, Ohio, April 27, 1872, and is a son of Ira T. and Ella M. Paine, mentioned else where in this volume. Judge Paine attended the Grand Island schools and graduated from the high school with the class of 1889. He then entered Northwestern University, at Evanston, Illi nois, where he received his B.Sc. degree in 1894. For one year he was superintedent of schools at North Loup. From 1895 to 1898 he was assistant principal of the Grand Island schools. From 1898 to 1904 he was court re porter for Judge John R. Thompson and in the latter year he entered upon the practice of law, continuing this until elected to the bench in 1916. He served the city of Grand Island as police judge from 1907 to 1911. From 1906 to 1917 he was referee in bank ruptcy for fourteen counties in Nebraska. Aside from strictly professional lines his name is found on the directorate of several financial institutions, including the following: The First National Bank of Grand Island, Cairo State Bank, Alda State Bank and the Bank of Doniphan. He "is secretary of the Paine and Fishburn Granite Company. At Grand Island January 15, 1902, occurred the marriage of Bayard H. Paine and Miss Grace Bentley, a daughter of Charles F. Bent- ley. Mrs. Paine was the first graduate of the Grand Island Baptist College in 1895, and also attended Mt. Vernon Seminary, Washington, D. C. Prior to her marriage she taught four years in the Grand Island high school. Mr. and Mrs Paine are the parents of three chil dren: Grace, Charles B .and Bayard H., Jr. The family are members of the First Methodist church, and the Judge has twice been a delegate to its general conference, first to Los Angeles in 1904 and to Baltimore in 1908. For several years he was a trustee of Nebraska Wesleyan University. In politics Judge Paine is a Democrat and in 1914 was the unsuccessful candidate of his party for congress. Fraternally Judge Paine is a Mason belong
ing to Ashlar Lodge A. F. & A. M and has crossed the sands of the desert and is a member of the Tangier Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He belongs to the B. P. O. Elks and several other fraternal orders. In all things pertaining to the moral, intel lectual and educational well-being of the com munity he gives generously of his time and means. For five years he capably served as a member of the school board and the Public Library Board. For many years he was secretary and later vice-president and director of the Y. M. C. A. and served as president of that organization four years during which
time the new building was erected.

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tantial business men of Grand Island and is at the head of one of the city's important enter prises, has been a resident of this city forty- six years and has taken a keen interest and im portant part in much of its development. Mr. Paine is a native of Ohio but is of New England ancestry and of Revolutionary stock, his paternal great-grandfather, Eleazer Paine, having been a soldier in the patriot army in his native state, Connecticut. Mr. Paine's maternal great-grandfather, Ira Tuttle, also a
native of Connecticut, was a justice of the peace for many years in Ohio. Among the young lawyers practicing in his court, were Frank and Benjamin F. Wade, whe became distinguished in public life in the Buckeye state. Ira T. Paine was born at Painesville, Ohio, January 31, 1847, the son of Henry and Har
riet (Tuttle) Paine, both of whom were born in northeastern Ohio, and spent nearly all their lives on a farm, passing away there in old age. Henry Paine was a son of Hendricks Paine, a native of Connecticut who moved to Ohio in 1802. Henry Paine was a
man of prominence in Lake County, a justice of the peace, and for nine years was a county commissioner. He and wife were pillars in the Methodist Episcopal church and worthy people in every relation of life. Of their family of eight surviving children out 'of the original ten.but two reside in Grand Island, Ira T., and Miss Carrie M. Paine, who lives with her
brother. In the country schools and at Painesville, Ira T. Paine obtained his education, in the meanwhile working on the home farm until 1873, when he came to Grand Island. Ne braska. He arrived with but a small amount of capital but as he was frugal, a hard worker and had early acquired industrious habits, he soon found employment and for six years worked in a lumber yard after which he went into the railway mail service where he remained seven years. In the spring of 1888 he embarked independently in the monument business, a con cern which has developed into a stock company of large importance, under the firm name of the Paine-Fishburn Granite Company, oper ating with a capital! stock of $64,000. Mr. Paine is president of the company and much of its success is due to his careful, conserva tive guidance of its affairs. He is a Republican in politics and at all times is an earnest citi zen, but he has never had any ambition for political honors, in the proper regulation of his own business affairs finding a satisfying
life.Mr. Paine was married June 9, 1870, to Miss Ella M. Huston, who died October 21, 1911, survived by one child who is Judge Bayard H. Paine of Grand Island. Mr. Ira T. Paine has been for more than twenty-five years the chairman of the board of trustees of the First Methodist Episcopal church of
Grand Island.

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