Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-07-20
|RESE OF IL G. ,PI'AY'NE,
Massachusetts Country RoyWho
Is Said To Be a Boss.
LUCK II AN INSURANCE POLICY.

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tai MAhaldqiisSeTn,, Wis. July ls,77Henry q
i ayre Was once Q barefooted boy on !
" s.sssaehusftts farm that hltched on ia
Tbs farm where. Mary Lyon. the Holy.
! q7lk, es ssh9qi marin spent her girlhqos
right updfer the knoll Of The hill where
G.sofge William Curtis later pitched his
f1lulpsr. hafne.s ass4., .It,.. 80. !.
tdI ip}anldas him N the. general offices OF
/ tbs, Milwaukee laluuke Street Car company In
HE, qutSidee rqQia WAS Mr.. Whitney, mis-
hapdy, man. and secretary. On the
walls, we're fixtures, G, he, Northern Pa,
elhe railroad scenery. eud Of electrical
devices and street cars Nj Payne him
self Is rather thick set man Of fIedi-
'urn height, With plenty of dark hair.
showing gfayI except on the
erownaof the head which is oalpabiy
isbarefcoted, u, as some 4ryear-eld child
.9ree rsmarked. X He. wears 4 mus
fsehG ayhich is tinged with a Is,lspicior
Of red. Heswas We'll dressed. but quiet
ly, VITA a colored linen shirt, and or
his little finger was plain gold ring
The face is square ai.H firm, with blue
BGUllG-
ness otahis manner are proverbial, foi
saoes moi the Milwa akee News style him
this %ti.ynnetizer?nl ee,oi s. hsasm9a
- .4aa Born i'm the Old Bay State. t,1s
aa Mr.: Payae q was born in Ashfield
Mass, Nov %, lS43,. and so Is, nearly
IS years OLD, Ills stock was of the pure
New England type. with considerable
to" be proud Of Moses Pay1ie lol
Paine) eanel to Boston in 1928 He was
aeaptainiiof tthe Boston "Aneients and
onesof his daughters mar
ried an AdamsI One, of the iihespreacheC
the sermon ia Holland wheh1 the May
lower started; and Robert Treat Payne
the "signer.%~o belonged 70. the stock, The
pn1otthhetr vas an Ames, Fisher rAmes be-
ing one Of the family, One Of the
Payne Women was Killed In d block;
house turing King Phillfps' war C6To)
his grea bgrahdfatherlwas at Benning
ton IN theogdh US that Tried mems souls
Mr.. Payhe's own rfstnerIwas "a store
yksepsr and,sfarmer. He later, mayed tc
Western, New York and died in. 1871
The, mother passed away iry 1871. The
father was a man of much force, ol
CHARACTER: The mother was patient
rainstaking9 even Tempered" as lei
son lidhafacterizes her.nitEnf 9dj nos,
the boy Henry was years ole
the family moved to SheIbourne Falls
ak miles a May. and here he. lived unit
1 he was IA ars old; AT this point his
! schooling ceased, but If, included, thret
years i'm the academy, and those old
fashioned New England academies
turned out boys and girls that have
been the confusion and envy Of noderr
educa tional methods. Young Payne
Ftook life seriously from the start. If we
mayuhelieye his ownustory; andawas Q
good STUDENT Then followed two years
-. keeping, ACCOUNTS" in, a paper mill ir
Northampton. The first year he en-
joyed $50 salary plus his keep" which
lecst $3.50 a. week: 7 and the second year
he thrfVed and saved money on a S25t
salary, Finding hlmself.'r There were
three children = Henry.aa sister who now
lives in Jamestown, n. ", and a broth.
era Who, died in milwaukee, in lST6.lH !
4 Came tosyM ilyaukce 80 sears Ago.
-, In his goth, year, Henry Payne came *
Milwaukee,. A Shelbourns Falls man
Sherwin, had come Quito start the firm
of SherWin, NorVefl & Pratt. which aft,
efwdftlse aid d business Of $1,o0d000 q
Year, and he Invited Payne to become
oashierl and financial man! He was witt
them up to about 1870, working cupgtC
a $1,000 sslaryrwhen they went out lo
fbusiEess;o and. the young man from tht
Bay state began an insurance and brok'
erage. business for himself. In this hi
ccfitinued and made some money unit
1876, When lie Vas made postmaster. I
posit4br hef.heIdi Tor ten years, wher
Cleveland removed him. s. osnae fii
al But men are mot appointed post mas,
terso as the lightning strikesu-not often
There is usually "a political history bach
OF. this, form. Of public trust and Henry
Payne's case was no execution, ...-,. ~,
''" Organized a Republican Club.
v IN tell you how that happened" ht
said, as he put his arm on the hand
some big table where the directors 81
the street railway and electric lighting
CON- psony. capitalized at SIS, 100000, meet
to talk 5rcent fares and anhoying com.
mon, councils it was an accident my
getting into politics. In 1872 (that was
four years before the lightning struck
MiiWankee Repubicanism was tine
fured with Greeieyism The political
LIBERALIZATION was heavily imbued WITH
al Itfgot as late as August and still
no political stand was taken. But there
,vereia iotaof sturdy Germans and some
OF ftlewn.easters ,whosadmire = Grant tt
an extrsme, One, night ! invited TWEEN
ty young, fellows up in, my office, apf
we organized the Young Mems, Repub,
leah club Eventually it succeeded the
old ORGANIZATION and took charge Of the
affaff$ of milwaukee, county" @' "'
of MFR. Payne was the first secretary and
Edward Saridsrson president. Then Mfr
Payns abec came president, when the. or.
gsnizatiep 1;yas, merged into the county
committee. That'was in 1880, He has
been in politics continuously since then
He was .secrstary of the state commit
tee, hen II Al Taylor, was president
and, "a s. both, we're hard. workers they
were. spirited campaigns the pair put
up for the Republican party Later
',aynes was chairman Of the state COM
,rIlfttee FOR four years,
? 10 veteran Nhtiofial Committeeman. ~
For eighteen years he has been a'mem-
bel. OF the national Republican commit
4ee. and IL now the oldest member in
point of service In 1892 he was Offered
the national craftsmanship, but de.
clined. n .-. -......... .rlg ..,.7.
q 1t was after he left the postoffice in
1885 that Mr.. Payne's conduct Of bte
slndus.riaE operations began. He was
then elected pres dent of the Wisconsin
Telephone company. succeeding MIR
tn ctF r q ell
lhim howtEe got his start financially
a(for we all are interested in knowing
how otheI people make their money!
Again his arm went on the big table
and the Blue eyes wandered Thought.
fully over the great city In whose ae.
Ativities the man has so much 70 say
TT made my first money in, real estate
Il saved same money when in business
for myself and an opportunity game
FOUND to buy a TRACT of suburban prop
'erty-nindty acres fer $1,000 an acre
r got a friend to go in and l had tc
raise sie,dO0 III cash 7 had $4,000 and
an'insdrdncs policy for $4,000 was due
a few months hence. Il realized Or
tina t. ard pufeh ased,the danda The city
was growing ErapidIg and the'einVest-
m mt .prcred EaByi prsfitably'n IL eseaIed
me 81, geo. That policya WAS my friend.
There was a pause and then rs went
On" II suppose / am worth" he was
tsteAkaig Slowly nov and still LOOKING
iout soveTi aieA teity4t'froTn s56J6Uo to
$3.50. oOO They say,H he added wild, "a
merry smile. in the newspaIers that il
is much more than that, but they are
swronig1"@ - f'.'',s
,ys,poryou read abusive things In The
ramspapers7nuI asked him 19S@ '"'
Ito, H. can,t4escapea seeing some ofiti
he replied. IT'S the penalty of being