George Eustis Paine (1892-1953)

He was born in Willsboro, New York and graduated from Columbia University. During the First World War, he served as an ambulance driver in France and for sometime lived between New York and Paris. He later became Chairman of the board of his family-owned paper manufacturing firm, the New York and Pennsylvania Company. He was also Trustee of Hanover Bank; Director and Chairman of the Fidelity-Phoenix Fire Insurance Company; and, a Director and Executive Committee Member of the Great Northern Paper Company. He had a passion for collecting artefacts associated with Napoleon, amassing a recently auctioned 155+ piece collection. He lived in New York and from 1936 to 1948 owned Land's End in Newport, famous as one of the former homes of Edith Wharton. After his first wife died in mysterious circumstances he bought "The Waves" at Newport. He was survived by his widow and 2-children by his first wife.