Bio of PAYNE, Dr. Clyde W., Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical
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Vol II, pg 253-254
DR. C. W. PAYNE (Clyde W. Payne)
For fifteen years Dr. C. W. Payne was active in the practice of his profession
in Iowa, but on the 1st of January, 1919, he retired from professional life and
organized the Payne Motor Company in Minneapolis, of which he is president.
In the acquirement of his early education C. W. Payne attended the public
schools of Iowa, his native state, and in due time enrolled in the Iowa Wesleyan
College, from which institution he was graduated with the M. D. Degree in 1893.
For some time he was engaged in the general practice of his profession and later
became an eye, ear, nose and throat specialist, gaining a widespread reputation
for himself in that connection throughout the state. He began to practice in Des
Moines and resided there until 1908, when he took up residence in Boone, that
state. He was an active member of the profession fifteen years and became one of
its most representative members. In 1919, however, he came to Minneapolis, on
the 1st of January, 1919, and that year organized the Payne Motor Company, of
which he became president, and in the conduct of which he has since been active.
He devotes his entire time and attention to this business and has achieved
well-merited success. Dr. Payne handles the Paige and Jewett cars exclusively in
five states and he has a very handsome show and sales establishment on the
corner of Thirteenth street and Hennepin avenue.
Dr. Payne married Miss Nora B. Lowry, a resident of Omaha, Nebraska. She is a
woman of much culture and refinement and takes an active part in the club and
social circles of Minneapolis.
In political relations Dr. Payne is a republican, but he has never been an
active partisan, although deeply interested in the welfare of the party at all
times. Fraternally he is a Mason, having attained the thirty-second degree in
the Scottish Rite, and he holds membership in the commandery, of which he is
past eminent commander, and is a Noble of the Mystic Shrine. The social side of
his nature finds enjoyment in his active membership in the Interlachen,
Minneapolis, Athletic, Automobile and Des Moines clubs. He is likewise
interested in all organizations and all worthy agencies at work in the community
for the elevation, improvement and enduring welfare of its residents and he has
always been a zealous advocate and promoter of public improvements and an
earnest supporter of everything that seemed likely to advance the best interests
of his city, county and state.