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Catharine Paine (Blaine) (1829-1908) was an American pioneer, missionary, schoolteacher, and women’s rights activist, from Seneca Falls, NY. In 1853 she accompanied her husband, Methodist Reverend David Edwards Blaine, in bringing education and a ministerial mission to early Seattle, Washington Territory. She is best known as a participant in the early women’s suffrage movement and one of the youngest signatories of the Declaration of Sentiments produced at the 1848 women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, NY.

Born to parents Thomas and Louisa Paine in 1829, Catharine