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cl the Independent Order of Odd J'ellows, Knights of Pythias. Order of Owls, and Junior Order of United American Me- chanics. For many years he has taen an official of the Methodist church, and he is ever ready to further any movement calcu- kted to promote the general welfare. He married, November 21, 1894, Edna Sue Hud- gins, daughter of Albert and Sadie (Crock- ett) Hudgins, of York county, Virginia. They have one daughter. Dorothy.

Daniel Kerfoot Bayne. Daniel Kerfoot Bayne, senior member of the firm of Wil- liam Bayne iv Company, of New York City, which was founded by his father and which has been in existence for seventy-five years, is descended from several old Virginia fami- lies. He was born at Alexandria, Virginia. January 16, 1849, son of William and Delia Strother (Kerfoot) Bayne, and grandson of Richard Bayne, whose ancestors are de- scribed elsewhere in this work.

Richard Bayne was born September 13, 1789, lived near Baynesville, Westmoreland county, Virginia, and died November 3, 1829, at twelve o'clock. On September 14, 1813, he married Susan, daughter of Law- rence and Penelope Pope, who was born No- vember 30, 1794. Lawrence Pope died July 21, 1810, in the seventieth year of his age, and his widow died March 12, 1826. He was a descendant of Humphrey Pope, the first of the name to settle in Virginia, and who was living in Rappahannock (now Richmond) county in 1656, and in 16^9 ob- tained a deed from Thomas Pope for one lumdred and fifty acres of land in Clifts, W^estmoreland county. He married Eliza- beth, daughter of Richard Hawkins, and died in 1695. Their eldest son, Lawrence Pope, married Jemima, relict of John Spence, and daughter of Thomas Waddy, of Northumberland. His will was recorded March 2. 1723, and he lived in Washington parish, Westmoreland county. His third son, John Pope, married his cousin Sarah, daughter of Christopher Mothershead, and the second son of this union was Lawrence, who was l^orn in 1740 and died July 31, 1810. He was three times married : (first) Jane, daughter of Humphrey Ouisenberry, (sec- ond) Frances Carter, and (third) Penelope Vigar. relict of Jacob Vigar. and daughter of Nicholas Quisenberry. By the last mar- riage he had a daughter Susan, born No-

vember 30, 1794, married Richard Bayne, as above mentioned. Richard and Susan (Pope) Bayne had children as follows: Lawrence, William, George H., Charles, Washington, Patteson.

William Bayne, second son of Richard Bayne, was born in Westmoreland county, Virginia, October 12, 1816, and died at the age of eighty-two years. He was a mer- chant and cofifee and sugar jobber and im- porter in Baltimore, Maryland, and founded the firm of Bayne, Miller & Company, which subsequently became known as William Bayne & Company, and which is still oper- ating under the latter name in New York City. He married (first) Delia Strother, daughter of Daniel S. and Maria (Carr) Kerfoot, and (second) her sister, Amanda Carr. By his first marriage he had seven and by his second marriage six children. Those who survived to maturity were : Richard, who married Sue Wilkins ; Daniel K., of this sketch; Marietta W., married H. J. Davison, of New York; Maria K. ; Wil- liam, married Sallie Smith ; Lawrence Pope, married Maude D. Denny ; all by his first marriage, besides a daughter, Emma, who died in infancy. By his second marriage: Virginia L. ; C. Ernest, married Katherine (Mitchell) Johnson; E. Norman, married Bertha D. Lockwood ; Charlotte, married Gardner Corning; Helen, married Clarence B. Davison, of New York ; and Walter L.

Daniel K. Bayne attended the public schools of Baltimore and later studied under private tutors and in private schools there, receiving an excellent education. He was ten years of age when his parents located in Baltimore and in early manhood was asso- ciated with the firm of Bayne, Miller & Company, which his father founded, and was succeeded by the firm of William Bayne (S- Company. In 1876 he withdrew from the firm and came to New York, engaging in wholesale molasses business, and later in wholesale and importing business, making a specialty of coiTee, under the firm name of .Simmons & Bayne, which firm went out of lusiness. In 1887 he withdrew from active business and spent a year traveling abroad. l.'pon his return he again became a partner in the old firm of William Bayne & Com- pany, remaining until his death. Januarv 24, 1915. He was a member of the board of directors of the Beet Sugar Company, also on the executive committee. In 1892 he