UPPER TOWN PRECINCT.



ily are members of the Catholic church. His father owns seventy
acres of fine land six miles east of Owensboro.
   P. -. Payne was born in Meade County, Ky., Feb. 22, 1848.
 His father, William M. Payne, was born in Nelson County, Ky.,
 about 1817, and died Feb. 12, 1861. IHis mother, Jane (O'Bryan)
 Payne, was born about 1821, and died April 26, 1864. P. E. is
 the fourth of seven children. He came to Owensboro in March,
 1867, and worked one season on the Rudd farm. In the tall lhe
 commenced to tend bar for Robert O'Bryan; worked for himn
 eighteen months, and in the spring of 1869 went to work for M.
 V. Monarch. In the fall of 1874 lhe took a working interest in
 the business, and in 1880 bought a share of the business and
 changed the name of the firm to the Sour-mash Distilling Com-
 pany, and holds the office of Secretary. They have two distilleries
 with a capacity of seventy barrels per day, or 900 bushels of grain.
 Mr. Payne was married Oct. 27, 1873, to Marv E. O'Bryan, a na-
 tive of Meade County, Ky., born Sept. 29. 1850. They have three
 children-Louise, born March 14, 1876; Amelia, born July 18,
 1878; Adele, born Sept. 21, 1880). Mr. Payne is a member of the
 Catholic church and Catholic Knights. No. 18, Owensboro Branch.
 Politically he is a Democrat.
   Thomas H. Payne was born in Meade County, Ky., May 10,
1846, and was a son of William M. and Jane F. (O'Bryan) Payne,
natives of Marion County, Ky. His father was born in 1817, and
died in 1862. His mother was born in 1818, and died in 1864.
They were the parents of twelve children, seven of whom are living
-William M., Thomas H., P. E., Charles A.. James M., Elizabeth
and Mary. After the death of his father the care of the mother
and five of the children fell on Thomas H. He commenced a
course of study at Gethsemnane College, when he was called home
by the death of his mother. He returned to the school, taking
three brothers with him. They were to work a year and attend
school a year. At the expiration of the two years Thomas H.
went to St. Mary's and clerked in a store for his uncle, Robert
O'Bryan, two years. Feb. 19, 1867, he married Lizzie C., daugh-
ter of Ignatius Russell, who was born May 13, 1845. She is a
sister of Father Russell, a Catholic priest, now at Nazareth, Ky.
That same year Mr. Payne came to Daviess County and followed
farming till 1875, when lie moved to Oweusboro, where he has been
trading in live-stock. He has gained the confidence of the people
of Daviess and adjoining counties, and is now handling more stock



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