Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-10-28
Lives Full of Use.
fulnesS Rewarded
with HOnOrs.
What Some Success
full Lawyers Have
Passed Through.
John Barton Payne.

Mr.. Payne was born at Prunty-
town, Va, Jan. 26, 1855. He is the
son of Amos and Elizabeth Barton
Payne. His ancestors may be traced
back to the time of Charles Ii. of En-
gland. The early ancestors of Mr.
Payne came from England about the
year 1910 and settled in Virginia
Mr.. Payne's great-grandfather Fran
els Payne was an American officer in
the revolutionary war, and his father
was graduate of Pennsylvania Uni
versity and a practicing physician of
note. John Barton Payne's youth
was spent in Orleans, Fauquier Coun-
ty, Va. He there received thorough
English education, and later classical
course under private tutors. While
he was employed as assistant clerk of
the courts Of his native town, in 1874,
he began studying law, and having
passed a thorough examination be-
fore three judges, he was admitted to
the bar of the Old Dominion in Au-
gust, 1876. Mr.. Payne made mum.
Der of political speeches during the
Tilden and Hendricks campaign,
which were we'll received and showed
him to be Democrat in whom there
was no guile. He was the compan-
ion of Gen. Hancock in his Presiden-
tial campaign, and made many
eloquent speeches throughout West
Virginia and Pennsylvania. In
May, 1888, he was elected special
Judge of the Circuit Court of Tuck
er County. Mr.. Payne has been en-
gagged in a number of important
cases, among which may be men
toned a case where he claimed that
the law giving landlords lien pref
erence over chattel exemptions was
unconstitutional. He obtained an
injunction from the Circuit Court on
that ground, which was affirmed by
the Court of Appeal, where it was
argued by Mr.. Payne in 1880.
At the election in January, 1882,
he was made Mayor of King
wood, and after retiring from that
Office removed to Chicago, and was
admitted to the Illinois Bar March
q, 1888, and has been engaged in
an active and paying practice ever
since. He is a member of the law
firm of Aldrich, Payne & Defrees, the
senior member Of the firm, Mr.. Aid
rich, having been Solicitor General
of the United States under President
Harrison's administration. Mr. Payne
believes in the Methodist Church and
the Democratic party. He has for
years been leading member of the
Illinois State Bar Association and the
Chicago Bar Association. He is a
director of the Union League Club
and chairman of its Membership
Committee; also a member of the
Law Club of Chicago He has been
president of the Chicago Law Insti-
tute. He married Oct. II, 1878, Miss
Kate Bunker, daughter of the late
Judge Edward c. Bunker, of West
Virginia.
Mr.. Payne has frequently acted as
chairman of Democratic Campaign
Committees
Perry Trumbull.
Mr. Trumbull, who was named by
the Democratic convention for one
of the Judges of the Superior Court,
is a son OF ex-senator Lyman Trum
bull and was born at Alton, in thi.
State, In January, 1851. lie studied
law In Columbia law school. and
with Hon. b. C. Cook, and was adj
mltted 20 the bar 40 Springfield
Jan. p, 1874. tie has been a member
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