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stitution in 1883, He was moderator of the gen- eral assembly of the Presbyterian church of the United States which met in Madison, Wis., in 1880 ; a director of Western Theological seminary, 1851-65 ; was elected trustee of the College of New Jersey in 1867 ; trustee of Jefferson col- lege, 1853-65 ; served as trustee of Leake and Watts Orphan asylum. New York, 1866-83, and as a trustee of the Sailors' Snug Harbor, New York, 1866-83. He is the author of : Memorial of the Rev. Francis Herron, D.D.

PAYNE, Charles Henry, clergyman and edu- cator, was born in Taunton, Mass., Oct. 24, 1830' He was graduated at Wesleyan university, Con- necticut, in 1856 ; was a private tutor in Newark, N.J., 1856 ; studied at the Biblical institute, Con- cord, N.H., and joined the Providence confer- ence of the Methodist Episcopal church in 1857. He was married March 21, 1857, to Mary Eleanor Gardiner, of Wickford, R.I. ; was pastor in Sandwich, East Bridgewater, and Fall River, Mass., in Providence, R.I., Brooklyn, N.Y., Phila- delphia, Pa., and in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1857-76. He erected St. John's church, Brooklyn, N.Y., at a cost of $200,000, and the Arch Street church, Philadelphia, at a cost of $260,000. He was presi- dent of Ohio Wesleyan university, Delaware, Ohio, 1876-88, succeeding Dr. Frederick Merrick, and was corresponding secretary of the board of education of the Methodist Episcopal church, 1888-99. He was a member of the committee to revise the hymn-book of his denomination in 1876, a delegate to the Genei'al conferences of 1880, 1884, 1888, 1892 and 1896, and to the Ecumenical conference in London in 1881. He traveled ex- tensively in Europe, Egypt, Greece, Syria and the Holy Land. He received the degrees D.D. from Dickinson college in 1870, and LL.D. from Ohio State university in 1875, and is the author of : The Social Glass and Christian Obligation (1868) ; Daniel the Uncomjyroinising Young Man (1872); Methodism, its History and Results (1881) ; Women and their Work in Methodism (1881) ; Temperance (1881); Education {I88i); and Guides in Character Building (1883). He died at Clifton Springs, N.Y., May 5, 1899.

PAYNE, Daniel Alexander, A.M.E. bishop, was born in Charleston, S.C., Feb. 24, 1811 ; sou of Loudon (a soldier in the war of 1812) and Martha Payne, and of mixed African, English and Indian blood. He attended the Lutheran Theological seminary at Gettysburg, Pa., 1835-38, and was ordained to the Lutheran ministrj- in 1838. He filled the pulpit of a Presbyterian church in Troy, N.Y. ; conducted a high school for colored boys and girls in Philadelphia, Pa., 1838-43 ; became an itinerant minister of the African Methodist Episcopal church in May, 1842, and was stationed at Washington, D.C., and in

Baltimore, Md., 1843-52. He was appointed his- toriographer of his denomination iu 1848, and was elected bishop by the general conference in New York in 1852, He founded and was presi- dent of Wilberforce university at Xenia, Ohio, 1865-76 ; traveled in Europe, 1867-68, and attended the Methodist Ecumenical conference in London in 1881, where he was presiding officer one day. He was chancellor of Wilberforce university and dean of the Theological seminary. He received the degree LL.D, from Lincoln university in 1879, He is the author of : History of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (3 vols., 1865) ; Re- coilection of Men and Things and Domestic Educa- tion (1886), He died at Xenia, Ohio, Nov, 29, 1893. PAYNE, Elisha, jurist, was born in Canter- burj'. Conn,, in February, 1731 ; son of the Rev. Elisha and Mary (Johnson) Payne ; grandson of Elisha and Rebecca (Doane) Payne, of Eastham, Mass., who removed to Canterbury, Conn., about 1700 ; and a descendant of Thomas (1586-1650) and Elizabeth (Tuthill) Payne, who came with six children from Wrentown, Suffolk, England, be- fore August, 1637, to Salem, Mass. The Rev. Elisha Payne, Sr., said to have been the most talented lawyer in Connecticut, abandoned the practice of law in 1742 to become a preacher, and was twice arrested and thrown into prison for preaching the Gospel and advocating reli- gious freedom in New England. In 1752 he became minister at Bridgehampton, near South- old, L.I., N.Y., where many of his relatives had settled in 1651-52, Elisha Payne, Jr,, was edu- cated and prepared for the law under the super- vision of his father, and practised in Canterbury and Plainfield, Conn. He represented Plainfield in the state legislature, and was one of the five original settlers of Cardigan (now Orange), N,H. He served as an officer in the French and Indian war, gaining the rank of colonel ; was deputy surveyor-general of the King's woods to preserve the pine trees, and was commissioned lieutenant- colonel of militia in August, 1775, He was chosen an assistant justice of the court of common pleas and register of probate for Grafton county in 1776; represented Cardigan, N,H,, in the Ver- mont legislature during the "East Union" in 1778 ; removed to Lebanon in 1780 ; was a leading member of the Charleston convention of 1781 which determined the boundary between Ver- mont and New Hampshire, and was elected by the legislature lieutenant-governor of Vermont, chief justice of the supreme court and major- general of militia in the same year. When this last "Union " was dissolved he became a citizen of New Hampshire, serving in the state house of representatives, 1784-85, 1790, 1793, 1796, 1797 and 1800, and in the senate, 1786-87. He was married in 1753 to Anna Waldo, of Connecticut, and