Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 1885, Hardin Co. PROF. JOHN N. PAYNE, the present efficient principal of the Elizabethtown public school, is a native of Mercer County, Ky., and was born October 13, 1832. His grandfather, John Payne, was a Virginian, and from there removed to Lexington, Ky., with his family, among whom was Robert W. Payne, the father of our subject. He was born in Virginia, but was a mere lad when the family removed to Lexington. He there grew to manhood and was there educated. He then went to Mercer County, Ky., and there married Pauline Tally. They had a family of seven children, John N. being the second. He received the usual primary training in the common schools of his native county, attending also the Simsonville Academy, Kentucky, completing his education in the Tousley College of New Albany, Ind.; but later (in 1874) received the degree of A.B. in the Kentucky Military Institute. He has devoted his life to the profession of teaching, beginning at the age of twenty-two years, and has an enviable record of thirteen years' labor in the schools of New Albany, Ind.; four years as principal of the high school of Jefferson, Ind., besides having served from two to three years each as principal of the high schools of Corydon, Ky., Hawesville, Ky., and Madison, Ind. Since the summer of 1883 he has conducted the schools of Elizabethtown, where he has done much to elevate the standard. Prof. Payne is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and of the New Albany Lodge, No. 39, F. & A.M. He was married, in 1858, to Mary E. Williams, who died in 1863; his present wife, to whom he was married in 1871, was Miss Mary F. Slider, of New Albany, Ind. Payne Tally Williams Slider = Mercer-KY Fayette-KY VA IN http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/hardin/payne.jn.txt