Dallas County IA Archives Biographies.....Payne, James Monroe 1818 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1896)

JAMES MUNROE PAYNE, a resident in of Adel township, Dallas county, Iowa, is
deserving of great credit for the success he has attained in life. From an early
age he has been dependent entirely upon his own resources and has worked his way
steadily upward, overcoming the difficulties and obstacles in his path by energy
and persistence. To-day he is numbered among the substantial citizens of the
community and his successful and honorable life should serve as a source of
encouragement and inspiration to others.

    He was born in Maryland, near Newmarket, October 18, 1818, and is a son of
James and Elizabeth (Russam) Payne. His parents were also natives of Maryland,
and emigrating westward in 1826 took up their residence in Ohio, where they
lived for nine years, the father working at his trade of wagon-making. In 1835,
he took his family to Indiana, and, in Tippecanoe county, carried on both
wagon-making and farming. In 1843 he located near Kokomo, where his wife died,
at the age of forty years. In their family were sixteen children, of whom twelve
reached years of maturity, while six are yet living. About 1856 the father
continued his westward journey and became a resident of Harrison county,
Missouri, where he developed and improved three different farms and spent his
remaining days, passing away, at the age of eighty-eight.

   James M. Payne accompanied his parents on their various removals, remaining
at home until twenty-two years of age. In his father's shop he learned the trade
of wagon-making, which he followed until his marriage. On the 15th of December,
1839, he was joined in wedlock with Elizabeth Eaton, who was born in Maryland,
January 10, 1817, a daughter of Leaven and Mary (Hopkins) Eaton, also natives of
the same State. The father was a mechanic and in an early day took up his
residence in Ohio. He afterward located near Elkhart, Indiana, and subsequently
removed to Illinois, where both he and his wife died, the former at the age of
seventy-two years, the latter at the age of seventy-five. Mr. and Mrs. Payne
became the parents of nine children, of whom seven are yet living, namely:
Charles H., Edward R., Lura J., Ira D., Jerome M., Joseph D. and Nettie. All are
married and are comfortably situated in life.

   Upon his marriage, Mr. Payne located near La Fayette, Indiana, in the village
of York-town, where he worked at his trade of wagon-making for a year. In 1840
he went to Missouri, where he remained until June, 1841, and then returned to
Indiana, working in his old shop for three years. After spending eight months in
Rossville, Indiana, he removed to Howard county, where in the midst of the
forest he hewed out a farm, continuing its cultivation for three years. His next
home was in Perryville, where he worked at his trade for three years, and in
1851 he took up his residence in Henry county, Illinois, where he made a prairie
farm, continuing its operation until 1856, the year of his arrival in Iowa. Mr.
Payne located a mile north of his present home, but in 1857 returned to Henry
county, Illinois, where he followed wagon-making until 1866. In that year he
located once more on the Iowa farm, which was his place of abode for four years,
when he came to the farm which he now owns, comprising 235 acres of rich and
valuable land and constituting one of the most valuable and desirable farm
properties in this section of the State. Here upon this farm his faithful and
estimable wife, with whom he had traveled life's journey for more than a half
century, passed away, on the 16th of June, 1890. All who knew her had for her
the highest regard, for her many excellencies of character were widely recognized.

   In his political views, Mr. Payne is a Republican, having stanchly supported
the principles of that party since its organization. His first presidential vote
was cast for Henry Clay. He has filled a number of local positions, discharging
his duties with credit to himself and satisfaction to his constituents, and he
has long been recognized as one of the valued citizens of the community.

   Joseph D. Payne, the youngest son, is now serving as the efficient Sheriff of
Dallas county. He was born and brought up in Henry county, Illinois, May 20,
1856. On the 29th of June, 1875, he married Miss Belle C. Crane, and to them was
born one son, Ray C. He was again married in 1879, and in 1888 he wedded Mrs.
Emma (Clark) Kinney. They had one daughter, Eva E., who was born May 17, 1893,
and died October 28, 1894.

   After his marriage Joseph Payne removed to Adel, where he engaged in
school-teaching and in mining. From June, 1876, until January, 1877, he had
control of the teams of the C. C. Mining Company, after which he went to western
Nebraska, spending a year in that country operating a stage line from Belvidere
to Bloomington, a distance of 112 miles. On the expiration of this period he
sold out and returned to Dallas county, where he engaged in farming, purchasing
a tract of improved land, which he greatly developed. He bought and sold farming
property and now owns a part of the old homestead which his father purchased in
1853, his being only the third deed that has been given to the land. In the fall
of 1893 he was elected Sheriff, and is one of the most capable and efficient
officers that the county has ever had. Both the father and son are noted for
honor, uprightness and integrity, and their genuine worth places them among the
leading and representative citizens of Dallas county.


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A MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF IOWA

ILLUSTRATED

"A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendants."'—MACAULAY.

"Biography is by nature the must universally profitable, universally pleasant,
of all things."—CARLYLE

"History is only biography on a large scale"—LAMARTINE.

CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1896


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