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James Paine, a prominent farmer of Tipton County, was born in Haywood County, Tenn., June 10, 1845, and is a son of Constantine and Ann M. (McCain) Paine, who were both natives of North Carolina. The father’s ancestors came from England, and the mother was of Scotch descent. The father was born December 5, 1806, and was a brother of the distinguished Bishop Robert Paine, of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. The mother was born June 2, 1808. In early life they moved from North Carolina to Haywood County, Tenn., and settled five miles south of Brownsville. In 1850 they moved to Tipton County and located twenty-one miles southwest of Covington, where the mother died November 22, 1853. In June, 1857, the father married Mrs. Susie A. (Adams) Person, then moved to Memphis, where he died March 23, 1862. He was a Democrat. He sympathized with the Methodist Church, though not a member of it, but our subject’s mother was a devout Methodist. James Paine received an excellent education, then gave his attention to farming. Tipton County has been his home since childhood. In 1863 he went into the Confederate Army in Company G, Twelfth Tennessee Infantry. The company took its place in Gen. Cheatham’s brigade; afterward in his division. Mr. Paine was in the service a year after joining, but his health was so delicate he was discharged in February, 1864; but his health improving, in November of the same year he joined Forrest’s cavalry at Okoloma, Miss., and remained with Forrest until the war closed. In 1862 he came into possession of the old family homestead, and he now owns 680 acres of land in Tipton County, with a steam grist-mill and cotton-gin on it, and owns real estate in Memphis to the value of $8,000. Mr. Paine has never married. He gives his earnest support in political matters to the Democratic party. He does not belong to any church, but is a man of strict moral character and inclines to the Methodist Church.