1868 Paine Broadside View of Ascutney Mountain, Vermont

Milton Kendall Paine (July 15, 1834 - October 27, 1896) was an American apothecary and druggist in Windsor, Vermont. Born in Boston, his parents moved to Orange County, Vermont when he was three. He was educated in common schools in Vermont before beginning a seven-year apprenticeship at a drugstore owned by A. and H. Wardner. Paine opened his own drugstore in Widsor in 1856 and called it 'Paine's Drug Store'. Paine quickly found success, and within two years had paid all his debts related to opening his store. Over the course of his career as a druggist, Paine concocted several popular products, including Balm of Gilead and Cedar Plaster and Paine's Celery Compound. The celery compound was his greatest success, but, when his health started to fail, he sold the compound to the Wells and Richardson Company of Burlington in 1887. The following year, F.P. Whitcomb bought Paine's drugstore. Paine was widely respected throughout New England and was twice named president of the Vermont State Pharmaceutical Association. Paine was active in masonic circles and in Republican politics, serving as a member of the Republican state committee from 1888 through 1894. Paine married Hellen A. Austin on May 2, 1857, with whom he had one daughter. She died in September 1864. Paine remarried in May 1872 to Mrs. Mary Lemmex Smith. More by this mapmaker...

Wallace Albert King (February 2, 1837 - 1919) was an American artist active in New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Michigan during the mid- to late-19th century. Born in Woodstock, Vermont, King attended Woodstock High School and the Westminster, Vermont Seminary where he studied painting, drawing, and art before entering Norwich University in 1855. After studying at Norwich for two years, King moved to Tecumseh, Michigan, where he worked as a portrait and landscape artist and also created panoramas. At the outbreak of the U.S. Civil War, King recruited sixty of the eight-five men enlisted in the Tecumseh Union Cadets. He was then elected their captain, but declined the office, but was later chosen as a first lieutenant and commissioned as such. He drilled his troops for four weeks, then went with them to Adrian, Michigan, where they were mustered into the Union Army as Company G, 4th Michigan Infantry. He soon fell ill and spent eight weeks in the hospital, which forced him to resign his commission and return to Vermont. Soon after returning to Vermont, King enlisted in Company B, 7th Rhode Island Cavalry, and served his full enlistment term. After the war, King worked as an artist in Woodstock for two years, and then became the foreman of the decoration department at the Hampshire Pottery Company in Keene, New Hampshire. He also worked for J.S. Taft and Company. King was a member of the Royal Select Masters of Windsor, Vermont. He married Ada L. Emmons in 1867, with whom he had three children. Learn More...

William H. Forbes (1836 - February 3, 1915) was an English-American businessman and printer active in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Forbes was born in Liverpool England and immigrated to the United States at 12 years old. In the United States, he lived with Quaker relatives at Milton-on-the-Hudson, who provided him with a top-notch education. Forbes apprenticed as lithographer under H. A. Strong in New York. Following his maturity, he relocated to Boston in 1861, founding William H. Forbes and Company shortly after, in 1862. Forbes proved an excellent lithographer and savvy businessman. He reorganized his growing printing concern in 1875, incorporating as Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company in 1875. They focused on lithography, embossing, Albertype process printing, typesetting, copper and steel plate printing, and photolithography. At its height, Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company had over 70 presses located in Boston, New York, Chicago, and London, and staffed more than 600 workers, including 60 designers, artists, engravers, and lithograph artists. By 1881, Forbes himself had taken a back seat, working as the company treasurer, with William P. Hunt serving as president. In his personal life Forbes was well liked. He married the sister of well-known lithographer Louis Prang. After his death, the firm was taken over by his son, William S. Forbes. During World War II they were major printers of Allied military currency, producing more than 4 billion notes. The firm went out of business in the second half of the 20th century. Learn More...