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 PAYNE

PAYNE

in 1889 as representative in the 51st congress, and served coutinuously in the 51st-58th con- gresses. 1889-1905. He was a member of the committee on ways and means in the 51st-58th congresses, was appointed chairman of the com- mittee on ways and means in the 5Gth, succeeding Nelson Dingley, deceased, and in the 57th and 58th congresses. He was appointed a member of the joint high commission to negotiate a treaty with Canada in 1898.

PAYNE, Will, editor and author, was born in Whiteside county, 111., Jan. 9, 18G3; son of Will- iam Augustus and Caroline (Ferris) Payne; grandson of William and Eliza (Wells) Payne of Lebanon, N.H., and a descendant of Thomas Paine, E;istham. Mass., about 1630. He was brought up on a farm, attended a country school and early in life removed to Nebniska, where he was employed in a bank. In 1890 he engaged in journalism in Chicago, where he was successively reporter, city editor and financial editor of the Daily News, holding the position of city editor during the World's Columbian exposition, 1893. In 1896 he left the Xews to become financial editor of the Chronicle, and in March, 1897, ac- cepted a similar position on the Economist. He published novels, including : Jerry, the Dreamer, (1896); The Money Captain (1898); The Story of Eva (1901), and numerous short stories contri- buted to the magazines.

PAYNE, William Harold, educator, was born in Farmington, N.Y., May 12, 1836; son of Gideon Riley and Mary Brown (Smith) Payne; grandson of Gideon and Phœbe (Hill) Payne and of Wil- liam and Lydia (Brown) Smith, and a descend- ant of Stephen Payne, born in Great EUingham, Norfolk county, England, who came to America in 1638 in the ship Diligent, and settled first at Hingl)am, Mass., also maternally from the Brown, Peck and Smith families, who were among the first settlers of Providence, R.I. He was brought up on his fathers farm, attended the district school, Macedon academy three terms, and New York Conference seminary one term. He taught school, 185.^-.58, in New York state; was principal of the Union school. Three Rivers, Mich., 1858-64; superintendent of schools, Niles, Mich., 1864-66; principal of Ypsilanti seminary, 1866-69; super- intendent of schools, Adrian, Mich., 1869-79; professor of the science and art of teaching, University of Michigan, 1879-88; chancellor of the University of Nashville and president of Peabody Normal college, Nashville, Tenn., 1888- 1901, and in 1901 returned to tiie University of Michigan as professor of the science and the art of teaching. He received the honorary degree of A.M. in 1872 and LL.D. in 1888 from the University of Michigan, and the degreesof Ph.D. from the University of Nashville in 1888. and

Litt.D. from Western University of Pennsylvania in 1897. He edited and published The Michigan Teacher, 1864-69, and is the author of : School Supervision (1875); Science of Education (1879); Ontlines of Educational Doctrine (1882); The Education of Teachers (1901), and translator of : Comitayre's History of Pedagogy (1886); Lectures on Teaching (1888); Elements of Psychology (1890); Applied Psychology (1893), and Rous- seau's Emile (1892).

PAYNE, William Henry, soldier, was born at Clifton, Fauquier county, Va., Jan. 27, 1830; eldest son of Arthur Alexander Mason and Mary Conway Mason (Fitzhugh) Payne; grandson of Capt. William and Marion (Morson) Payne, and of the Hon. Nicholas and Sarah Washington (Ashton) Fitzbui-gh, and a descendant in the seventh generation from John Payne, who with his brother William came to Virginia in 1620. His mother was a great-granddaughter of Augus- tine Washington. He was educated at the Uni- versity of Missouri, the University of Virginia, and the Virginia Jlilitarj' Institute, and was mar- ried, Sept. 29, 1852, to Mary Elizabeth Winston, daughter of Col. AVilliam Winter Payne (q.v.); practised law, and served as commonwealth's at- torney for Fauquier county until 1869, save dur- ing the suspension of civil duties, 1861-65. He entered the Confederate service as captain of the Black Horse cavalry, and in September, 1861, was promoted major of the 4th Virginia cavalry, and took part in the Peninsula campaign. He was wounded, left on the field and reported dead in the battle of Williamsburg, May 5, 1861, was taken prisoner, and after his release promoted lieutenant-colonel and placed in temporary com- mand of the 2d North Carolina cavalry, with which regiment he held Warrenton, Va., against a Federal attack, thus preventing the capture of 3,000 wounded Confederates in hospital there. He was wounded and taken prisoner at Hanover, Pa., June 30, 1863, and on his exchange was pro- moted brigadier-general and commanded the 5th, 6th, 8th and 36th battalion, Virginia cavalry, which made up Payne's brigade. Fitz Lee's divi- sion, Early's army, operating in the valley against Sheridan in the fall of 1864, and south of the James river in the spring of 1865 in Fitzhugli Lee's cavahy corps. He was conspicuous in the battle of Five Forks, April 1, 1865, where he was wounded. Col. R. B. Boston succeeding to the command of the brigade. He was captured, April 13, 1865, brougiit to Washington April 16, was mistaken for the Payne implicated in the assas- sination of President Lincoln and by the firmne.ss of the officer liaving him in charge was rescued from a mob intent on killing him. He practised law at Washington. D.C.. and in 1902 was the counsel for the Southern railway.