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Payne, Perry W – Payson, Lewis E

Payne, Perry W

lawyer, jurist, was born Feb. 11, 1833, in Allegheny county, N. Y. He has attained prominence as a lawyer of ability in Cleveland, Ohio, in which city he has been a justice of the peace and a member of the board of education.

Payne, Sereno E

lawyer, congressman, was born June 26, 1843, in Hamilton, N. Y. During 1868-71 he was city clerk of Auburn, N. Y.; supervisor in 1871- 72; district attorney of his county during 1873-79; and during 1879-82 was president of the board of education. He was elected to the forty-eighth congress as a republican; and received the re-election to the forty-ninth, fifty-first, fifty-second, fiftythird, fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses.

Payne, William Morton

educator, critic, author, was born in 1858 in Massachusetts. He is an educator and literary critic of Chicago, and professor of physical science in the high school. He is the author of Our New Education; and Little Leaders.

Payne, William Riley

educator, financier, was born Sept. 24, 1862, in Three Rivers, Mich. He received his education at the university of Michigan, and is now secretary and treasurer of the university of Nashville, and the Peabody Normal college. He is also secretary of the board of education of Nashville, Tenn., and has filled various other public positions of trust. He is an authority on educational matters; and the author of valuable papers on that subject.

Payne, William Wallace

educator, journalist, author, was born May 19, 1837, in Somerset, Mich. He was professor of mathematics and astronomy at Carleton college and director of its observatory. He is director of the Minnesota state weather service. In 1867 he projected The Minnesota Teacher and Journal of Education, which he continued for six years, and in 1882 he established The Sidereal Messenger, which he still edits.

Payne, Winter W

agriculturist, state legislator, congressman, was born Jan. 2, 1807, in Fauquier county, Va. He was elected to the Alabama legislature in 1831, and with the exception of one year, served in that capacity until 1840. He was a representative in congress from Alabama from 1841 to 1847.

Paynter, Lemuel

congressman, was born in Delaware. He was elected a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1837 to 1841.

Paynter, Samuel

governor. He was elected governor of Delaware in 1824, and remained in office three years.

Paynter, Thomas H

lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 9, 1851, in Lewis county, Ky. He was appointed attorney for Greenup county, Ky., in 1876, ánd held that office, under appointment, until 1878, at which time he was elected to the same office, which he held until 1882.

He was elected to the fifty-first congress, and re-elected to the fifty-second congress as a democrat.

Payson, Edward

clergyman, author, was born Jan. 25, 1783, in Rindge, N. H.

He was a congregational clergyman of Portland, Maine, whose three volumes of Sermons were for a long time widely popular in the religious world. He died Oct. 22, 1827, in Portland, Maine.

Payson, Edward

author, was born in 1814. He was a writer of Deering, Maine, and the author of The Law of Equivalents in Its Relations to Political and Social Ethics; Doctor Tom; and The Maine Law in the Balance. He died in 1890.

Payson, Lewis E

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Sept. 17, 1840, in Providence, R. I. He moved to Pontiac, Ill., in 1865, and was judge of the county court from 1869 to 1873. He was elected a representative from Illinois to the fortyseventh congress, and re-elected to the forty-eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as a republican.