Seward Q. Payne Biography


	This biography appears on page 957 in "History of Dakota 
	Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. V (1915) and was 
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				SEWARD Q. PAYNE. 

	Seward Q. Payne has since 1883 occupied his present home farm in 
Sanborn county and gives his undivided attention to its further 
'development and improvement. He was born in Grinnell, Iowa, November 
8, 1871, and is a son of S. O. and Sarah (Chatterson) Payne. The father 
served as a soldier in the Union army. 

	The son, reared in his native state to the age of twelve years, 
there pursued his public school education. He has lived in Dakota since 
1883 and since taking up his present homestead farm as a claim from the 
government has given his time and energies to its development and 
improvement, converting it into a valuable property. His wife owns 
three hundred and twenty acres in Blaine township, Sanborn county, and 
to both tracts he gives his supervision, thus leading an active and 
useful life. 

	On the 29th of April, 1897, Mr. Payne was united in marriage to 
Miss Edna M. Wright, a daughter of C. C. Wright, and they have become 
parents of five children: Marion J., Harland W., Charles Q., Alger 
Dudley and Diantha. Mrs. Payne is a graduate of the Mitchell high 
school and is a cultured lady, highly esteemed in the community in 
which she lives. She holds membership with the Royal Neighbors and is 
deeply interested in the suffrage movement, doing all in her power to 
bring about equal franchise. Both Mr. and Mrs. Payne are well known in 
Sanborn county and they enjoy the goodwill and high regard of all with 
whom they have been associated.