Dr. Robert Paine

Creator

M.E. Mason

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Source Collection

University of North Alabama Archives and Special Collections, University Collection-University Portraits, Individual: Presidents: Lagrange-Present, Collier Library 

Identifier

UPI: 6.18

Description

Robert Paine was born in Person, North Carolina on November 12, 1799. He moved to Giles County, Tennessee in 1814. Before entering Cumberland College in Nashville in October 1817, he had a religious conversion that led him to go into the ministry. He received a Methodist preacher's license in 1818 and was ordained in the Methodist Episcopal church by the Tennessee Conference, first as a deacon in 1821 and then as an elder in 1823. From 1823 until 1829, he served as a presiding elder, overseeing Methodist preachers in the Nashville area. During 1829, two governing bodies of the Methodist church, the Tennessee Conference and the Mississippi Conference, founded LaGrange College and Paine became its first president in 1830. Paine did receive a degree of A.M. from Cumberland College (University of Nashville).

This portrait was painted by M.E. Mason in 1904 and hung at Emory University.

Date Created

1-23-2026

Date

1904

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