PAINE, G. W.

PAINE, STOCKWELL, HALLOCK, STOW, TYNDALE

Posted By: Jean Kramer (email)
Date: 11/25/2003 at 13:40:27

Biography reproduced from page 723 of Volume II of the History of Kossuth County written by Benjamin F. Reed and published in 1913:

G. W. Paine, who is successfully engaged in the drug business has been identified with the commercial interests of Algona for the past nine years. He is a native of Kossuth county, his birth having occurred in the vicinity of Algona on the 16th of July, 1876, and a son of Denison and Sarah S. (Stockwell) Paine. The father was born and reared in the vicinity of Boston, Massachusetts, but in 1864 he came to Kossuth county and resided here until his death on the 9th of April, 1911. When he first located here, Mr. Paine engaged in agricultural pursuits, continuing to follow this occupation until he was forty years of age. He then decided to engage in business and went to Burt, establishing himself as grain and stock dealer. He met with excellent success in this occupation as he was a man of keen discernment and he became one of the substantial citizens of the town. He continued in this business until his death. The mother, who is a native of Columbus, Ohio, has made her home with her children since the death of her husband. The family of Mr. and Mrs. Paine numbered eight, five sons and three daughters. In order of birth they are as follows: Minnie, the wife of H. B. Hallock, of Eagle Grove, Iowa; Cora, who married J. P. Stow, of Burt, this state; G. W., our subject; Ernest Ethan, a stock buyer at Burt; Ora Luella, the wife of G. S. Tyndale, a druggist at Carroll, Iowa; Clarence E., a civil engineer at Algona; Frank, an instructor at Ames College; and Harry C., who is studying veterinary surgery at Ames.

G. W. Paine was reared at home and educated in the common schools of Burt and the academy at Iowa City. After completing his education he engaged in business with his father for a few years, but subsequently, deciding to become a druggist, he went to Des Moines and matriculated in the pharmaceutical department of Highland Park College. He was granted with the degree of Ph.G. with the class of 1900, and immediately thereafter returned to Burt and engaged in the drug business. He disposed of his store three years later and coming to Algona became associated with G. S. Tyndale in the grocery business. They successfully conducted this enterprise for five years but at the expiration of that time Mr. Payne withdrew from the firm and bought the drug store he is now conducting. He carries a well assorted stock of drugs and sundries and is meeting with excellent success in his business. His store is favorably located and attractively arranged and as it has always been his policy to accord his patrons the most courteous treatment he has built up a profitable trade, and numbers among his customers many of the best people of the town.

Mr. Paine was married in 1900 to Miss Laura Stow and to them have been born three children, Roland D., George Raymond and Marie. The family attend the Congregational church, in which the parents hold membership and fraternally Mr. Paine belongs to the Knights of Pythias and the Modern Woodmen of America, and in politics he is a republican. He is industrious, persevering and systematic in business affairs and public-spirited and progressive in matters of citizenship, all of which are qualities much to be desired and have been the salient factors in his success.