On this day in 1731, a future signer of the Declaration of Independence is born. Robert Treat Paine would be a teacher, turned merchant marine, turned lawyer. How’s that for an unusual career path?! Of course, his family might have preferred one other job that he handled in the midst of all that. Paine came from a line of ministers, and he served as a chaplain during the French and Indian War. Paine’s career path was influenced by the fact that much of his family’s fortune had been lost when Pai
Source: This Day in History: Our hearts are full, our hands are full; may God support us.
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