History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 608.
[Scott County]  [Georgetown City and Precinct]

GEORGE V. PAYNE, lawyer, Georgetown; was born in Howard County, Mo.,
December 12, 1843, and at the age of twenty entered Georgetown College,
graduating in the class of 1866.  He began the study of law here, and
graduated from the Louisville law school in the class of 1867-68.  He
was admitted to the bar in 1868, since which time he has been in active
practice.  In August, 1870, he was elected County Judge, and re-elected
in 1874, also in 1878, now serving his third term.  By the Democratic
party he was re-nominated for a fourth term, in 1882.  He is d descendant
of the old Payne families of Fayette and Scott Counties.

Payne
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Fayette-KY Howard-MO

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