San Diego County Biographies

JOHN OLIVER WINSLOW PAINE

Submitted by Kathy Sedler

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attorney at law, was born in Charlestown, Maine, January 16, 1838, the youngest 
of seven children in the family of his father, Abner Paine. He entered the army 
in 1861, at Bangor, Maine, while he was a student at Dartmouth College, joining 
the Sixth regiment. He afterward enlisted in the Fourteenth regiment, under the 
command of Colonel Nickerson, as Second Lieutenant, and was honorably discharged 
after a service of about two years, having been promoted to First Lieutenant. In 
January, 1865, he raised a company of volunteers and was assigned to his old 
regiment, the Fourteenth Maine. He remained in active service until the close of 
the war, and was discharged in August, 1865. Part of his military life was spent 
in Georgia, where he was made provost judge in one of the districts of the 
State, with general powers. It was one of the first organizations of the courts 
after the close of the war, made by the commander of the department, General C. 
A. Steadman. After the war Mr. Paine returned to Maine to practice law, which he 
had studied previously. He moved to Ottawa, Kansas, in 1867, and remained there 
over twelve years, being one of the leading attorneys, serving two terms as 
District Attorney, and was also City Attorney, and retired with a good record 
and high honors. In 1879 Mr. Paine moved to San Diego, continuing the practice 
of his profession. He invested in real estate, and owns considerable land at 
Linda Vista, Poway, and other places in San Diego County, and since 1880 has 
been Notary Public. He has made a specialty of the public land business, 
entering Government claims, protests, etc. He is well known to the public, and 
is a quiet, conscientious citizen. and is interested in everything that tends to 
advance or improve this county. He believes that this region will attract a 
larger population in the future than any other portion of the country. He has 
much to say as to the resources of San Diego County.
        He was married in Ottawa, Kansas, in 1868, to Miss Jennie McKinley, a 
native of Maryland, who died in San Diego in 1883, leaving two daughters, Alice 
and Aimee. In 1886 Mr. Paine married Miss Anna B. Crotts, a native of 
Pennsylvania, and by this marriage has two children, Albert W. and Olive Prue.
 
SOURCE:  An Illustrated History of Southern California:  Embracing the Counties 
of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the Peninsula of Lower 
California… Chicago:  The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890.  p.-  231