DAVID W. PAINE
David W. Paine came to Franklin in 1876, and settled on section 28, where he has a farm of two hundred and forty acres, all of which was unbroken prairie at the time of his purchase. He now has it fenced and other excellent improvements upon it. He has stables sufficient to accommodate many cattle, sheep and hogs, in the raising of which, Mr. Paine is largely engaged. His residence is on section 18, he having leased the farm above mentioned, for five years. He purchased the place on which he resides, in the fall of 1881. It contains one hundred and sixty acres, most of the improvements upon it have been made by Mr. Paine. It is a beautiful place. He makes a specialty of Short-horn cattle and Poland China hogs, and is one of the most extensive breeders of fine stock in Cass County. He keeps, also, fine mutton sheep. Mr. Paine was born in Addison County, Vermont, in 1834. He remained in his native State until 1862, when he, with his family, came west and located in Whiteside county, Illinois, where he engaged in farming. They removed from that county to Cass. Mrs. Paine was formerly Marion Langdon, a native of Addison county, Vermont. They have five children--Lilly D., Lelia J., Wesley W., Leslie L. and Wilton A. Mr. Paine's parents, David and Eunice Paine, were also natives of the Green Mountain State. They had but two children--D. W. and a daughter, P. J.; the latter died in 1841, at the age of eleven years, and one week later her mother, also, departed this life. The father afterward married Caroline Ashley, who lived but three years after their marriage, when he again married; his third wife being Harriet Ashley, a sister of his second wife, who still survives. The father died in 1883.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 799.
