Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 5th ed., 1887,
Franklin Co.

GEORGE L. PAYNE was born in Frankfort, Ky., March 6, 1854, and is the
second son of John W. and Margaret Gayle Payne.  John W. Payne was the
eldest son of William and Mahala Pattie Payne.  William Payne was the son
was the son of William and Polly (Major) Payne.  John W. Payne was born in
Franklin County, Ky., in 1823; was a carpenter and contractor and followed
this business until 1861, when he went South and enlisted in Company E,
Capt. S. F. Chipley, Second Kentucky Regiment, Confederate Army.  He was
in nearly all the leading engagements, fought at Donelson, and served
during the remainder of the war as bugler, being at the close of the war
chief bugler of the famous First Kentucky Brigade.  He died at Frankfort
in December, 1873.  William Payne was born in Virginia May 4, 1789, and
was a soldier in the war of 1812.  In early manhood he tilled a portion
of South Frankfort which was a part of his farm, and also followed boating
to New Orleans.  William Payne, Sr., was born in Virginia, and was among
the pioneers who first came to Kentucky.  He settled on South Benson
Creek, Franklin County.  George L. Payne, the subject of this sketch, was
reared in Frankfort, and received his education at the common schools.
At the age of fourteen he entered the Yeoman printing office and learned
the "art preservative" in which office he was employed nine years, serving
in various capacities.  In 1881 he formed a partnership with George F.
Berry, and engaged in the conduct of a general insurance business, under
the style of Payne & Berry.  He is the active member of the firm, has
acquired a prominent position among the business men of the city, and
enjoys the confidence of all its people.  In 1883 he accepted the position
of special agent for Kentucky and Tennessee of the Phoenix Assurance
Company, of England.  For about a year he traveled these two States in
the interest of this old company, but subsequently resigned and resumed his
old position in the office of Payne & Berry, as manager of the local
business.  This firm does twice the business of any other agents, and
represents twenty-four of the leading American and foreign companies, the
Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company, of Newark, N. J.; the Travelers'
Life and Accident Insurance Company, of Hartford; the Hartford Steam Boiler
Insurance Company, and the Metropolitan Plate Glass Insurance Company, of
New York, being among the number.  Mr. Payne is a member of the Southern
Methodist, and is unmarried.

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