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Sumner Paine.
Second Lieutenant 20th Mass. Vols. (Infantry), April 23, 1863; killed at Gettysburg, Pa., July 3, 1863.
A brief sketch of Sumner Paine is all that will be of general interest, as his life was short and he was in the service of his country only two months. He was born May 10, 1845, son of Charles C. Paine of Boston, and great-grandson of Robert Treat Paine, a patriot of the Revolution.
His mother was Fanny C., daughter of Hon. Charles Jackson.
When eleven years old, he went with his family to Europe, and even at that age explored with great interest all the ruins in and around Rome.
The summer in Switzerland was an intense delight to him; he accompanied his brothers in two pedestrian excursions among the Alps, exploring most of the passes of central Switzerland and the valleys of Zermatt .and Chamouni, and climbing some of the highest mountains without the least fatigue.
Twenty or thirty miles a day over a high mountain pass was to him the height
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, Appendix. (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, chapter 37 (search)