Ralph Delahaye Paine

Ralph Delahaye Paine (August 28, 1871 – April 29, 1925) was an American journalist and author popular in the early 20th century. Later, he held both elected and appointed government offices.

Life and career Born in Lemont, Illinois, Paine was the son of Reverend Samuel Delahaye Paine. Rev. Paine was born in London and served in the British Army during the Crimean War before emigrating to America in 1856. Rev. Paine served as a lieutenant in the 2nd Maine Battery during the American Civil War and later was chaplain-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic. Paine worked as a reporter for twelve dollars a week. He also frequented a soda fountain in a cigar shop owned by Cuban revolutionary José Alejandro Huau.

Paine attended Hillhouse High School in New Haven, Connecticut and then Yale University. and Philbrook Ten Eyck Paine, born 1910. (1907, revised 2017) The Stroke Oar (1908) College Years (1909) The Ships and Sailors of Old Salem (1909) The Head Coach and The Fugitive Freshman (1910) Sandy Sawyer, Sophomore (1911) The Book of Buried Treasure (1911) The Wrecking Master (1911) A Cadet of the Black Star Line (1912) The Dragon and the Cross (1912) Campus Days (1912) The Judgments of the Sea (1912) The Steam-shovel Man (1913) The Adventures of Captain O'Shea (1913) The Wall Between (1914) The Twisted Skein (1915) The Long Road Home (1916) Sons of Eli (1917) The Fighting Fleets (1918) American Destroyers in the War Zone (1918) The Call of the Off-Shore Wind (1918) The Fight for a Free Sea, a Chronicle of "Mr. Madison's War" (1918) (Chronicles of America) The Old Merchant Marine, a Chronicle of American Ships and Sailors (1919) (Chronicles of America) Ships Across the Sea (1920) The Corsair in the War Zone (1920) The Public School Problem in New Hampshire (1920) First Down, Kentucky! (1921) Lost Ships and Lonely Seas (1921) Roads of Adventure (1922) (autobiographical) Blackbeard-Buccaneer (1922) Comrades of the Rolling Ocean (1923) Privateers of '76 (1923) The introduction of the re-published version of The Memoirs of Li Hung Chang (1923) Four Bells and Joshua Barney, a Forgotten Hero (1924) In Zanzibar (1925) The First Yale Unit (1925) Elijah Cobb - A Cape Cod Skipper (1925) (Foreword written by Ralph D. Paine) The Golden Table The Careless Sophomore (one act play) The Troubles of Juliet (one act play) The Pig with the Twisted Tail (screenplay) Too Much Pie (screenplay) The Skipper's Guest (screenplay) American College Football (Sportsman's Library)