Taylor County WV Archives Biographies.....Payne, John Barton January 26, 1855 - 
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Author: Lyon Gardiner Tyler, LL. D.

Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography
Lewis Historical Publishing Company, New York 1915
Volume III, page 367

Payne, John Barton, born at Pruntytown, Taylor county, Virginia, January 26,
1855, son of Dr. Amos Payne and Elizabeth Barton Smith, both natives of Fauquier
county, Virginia. His great-grandfather, Francis Payne, was an officer in the
continental army. He was educated at Orleans, Virginia, and began business life
as clerk in a store at Warrenton, Virginia, at times acting as assistant in the
office of the county clerk of Taylor county; meantime he read law, and was
admitted to the bar in 1870. He early became interested in politics, and acted
as chairman of the Democratic committee of Taylor county in the Tilden and
Hendricks campaign, and was a frequent delegate to senatorial and congressional
district conventions. In 1877 he removed to Kingwood, Preston county, West
Virginia, where he came to a place of prominence at the bar and in political
affairs. He afterwards removed to Chicago, Illinois, and became judge of the
superior court, and president of the Chicago Law Institute. 


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