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the children of Lewis Payne were two sons : Lewis, of whom further, and Dr. George Harrison, born at the old Payne homestead, November 4. 1799; he graduated with honors from Jefferson Medical College in 1828; his practice covered the whole of the then sparselv inhabited country from the ftjrmation of the James river in Botetourt county through almost the whole of Alle- gheny county, and was resident physician of the \Vhite Sulphur Springs during the period when the place was under the management of the Coldwells. He died at his home. Edge Hill, about two miles south of Covington, \^irginia, February 2, 1852.

Lewis (2) Payne, son of Lewis (i) and Nancy (Davis) Payne, was born in Bath county, Virginia, 1775. He married and had a son, Lewis (3) Payne, born October 21, 1803. He married Louisa Peck and had sons: I. James P'reston, born June 23, 1840, graduated in medicine in 1868; practiced in Covington until about 1877, when he moved tc Newport, Virginia, where he practiced until his death ; he was a private, serving in the "Alleghany Roughs" from Bath county, a company that had as drill master the present ex-Senator Daniels, of Virginia. 2 Lewis (4), of further mention. 3. George, who served in the Confederate army from Bull Run to Appomattox. 4. Charles, a cavalryman of "Stonewall' Jackson's Ijri- gade. 5. William, also a private of a Bath county regiment of the Confederate army ; commanded by Foxhall Dangerfield.

Lewis (4) Payne, son of Lewis (3) Payne and Louisa (Peck) Payne, was born in Bath county, \'irginia, March 6, 1842. He served in Dangerfield's cavalry regiment of the Confederate army, recruited in Bath county, V^irginia, and twice received wounds in battle. He married Eugenie St. Clair Bos- well. Children. i. Wilbur Boswell, of \vhom further. 2, Lulu Lee. born in Cov- ington, \'irginia, in 1868. died in 1886. 3. Ira Jerome, born in Alleghany county, Vir- ginia, in October, 1869; he married Lena Alley, and is now a resident of Roanoke, Virginia ; children : Catherine, Jerome and Alonzo. 4. Forest Eugene, born in Cov- ington, Virginia, in 1876: married Hattie Ford and has a daughter, .Sally Henry Payne. 5. Lewis (5). born in Covington, in 1881 ; married Lela Schuder and has chil- dren : James and Clara Payne.

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Dr. Wilbur Boswell Payne, of Covington, X'irginia, was born in Warm Spring Valley, Bath county, Virginia, December 17, 1867, eldest son of Lewis (4) and Eugenie St. Clair (Boswell) Payne. He obtained his early and preparatory education in the grammar and high schools, and was var- iously employed until 1890, when he carried into execution a long formed plan, by enter- ing the medical department of the Univer- sity of Virginia, where he pursued a regular course of medical study until 1893, when he was graduated M. D. He then pursued a post-graduate course at Tulane Univer- sity, New Orleans, Louisiana (medical de- partment), receiving the same degree from that institution. He was also interne and student at Charity Hospital, New Orleans, one of the largest hospitals in the world, for a time, and passed the State Medical lioard, in 1892, leading this class. He re- turned to Virginia, locating and beginning practice in Covington, the capital of Alle- ghany county. He began practice there in 1894 and is now one of the well established and highly regarded physicians of the town.

Dr. Payne is a member of the American Medical Association, in which he holds the office of local censor, Virginia State, South- ern Medical, Augusta County and Alle- ghany County Medical societies, and also a member of the Chesapeake & Ohio Surgi- cal Association. For six jears he was a member of the legislative committee of the state society. It was largely through the efforts of that committee that the physi- cian's license tax in Virginia was abolished by the legislature repealing the law under which it was collected. At the organiza- tion of the Alleghany County Board of Health in 1902, Dr. Payne was appointed a member and has been its efficient secretary from that date. He is the local surgeon of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, and local examiner for a number of life insurance companies. He is deeply interested in the work of the medical societies, keeps close touch with their proceedings, has contri- buted several papers read before them and published in the medical journals. He is a director of the Citizens' National Bank, also second vice-president and director of the Alleghany Milling Company, and was one of the founders and directors of the Home for Homeless Boys at Grace Mission. He