has been one of its most successful agriculturists. He owes his nativity to St. Lawrence County, N. Y., where he was born in March, 1822. His parents were natives of New York and New Hampshire, respectively, and reared the following children: Elias, Martha (unmarried and living in New York), Hiram (also a resident of New York), Lyman, Sarah (now Mrs. Clark, and residing in the " Empire State," where her husband is successfully engaged in tilling the soil), Mary Ann (the wife of a Mr. Ball, a farmer of New York), Harriet (deceased), Philena (is now Mrs. Beckwith, and a resident of Story County, where her husband tills the soil), Elmira (is now Mrs. Monta, and makes her home in Canada), and Lucy (who married a Mr. Miller, and resides in New York). Lyman Patridge attained his growth in his native State, and although he received the best schooling which the common schools of that State afforded at the time, his education was very meager, and at the early age of fifteen years he commenced life's battle in earnest. When he was twenty years of age he took an extended trip through New Hampshire, Massachusetts and New York, and in 1854 "he took the gold fever," and started from Dubuque, Iowa, afoot, across the plains, and reached California after the usual time. While on the Pacific Slope, he spent most of the time in mining and lumbering, and remained in California, Oregon, Washington and Idaho,until the winter of 1870, when he returned home, and in August of the following year the ceremony that made him and Cynthia Margaret Southwick husband and wife was performed. Immediately after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Patridge emigrated from New York to Story County, Iowa, arriving here in the spring of 1872. They purchased an eighty-acre farm, but slightly improved, for which they paid $1,800 in gold, and to this have since added eighty more acres, both of these tracts being now well improved and under a high state of cultivation. The children that have been given to them are: Effie Ellen (now married), Pearl Elizabeth and. Ella Frances (both at home and attending school) and Orrin L. (the baby of the home). Mr. Patridge has always identified himself with the Republican party, but holds that good men, either Republican or Democratic, should receive the suffrage of reliable, honest men; he has never aspired to office, being too deeply engrossed with his own affairs to take a very active interest in other matters. He is a gentleman who attends strictly to his own private matters, and is held in high regard by his friends and neighbors.
Prof. William P. Payne, of the firm of Payne & Son, editors and proprietors of the Representative, the official Republican organ of Story County, Iowa, is a native of Jefferson County, N. Y., his birth occurring there on the 22d of December, 1831. His parents, Samuel P. and Juliette (Ball) Payne, were also born in that State, the father March 6, 1806, and the mother March 27, 1809, their deaths occurring June 20, 1883, and June 27, 1881, respectively. Samuel P. Payne was an honest, worthy and successful tiller of the soil, and reared his children to a knowledge of that calling, but, as has been seen, all have not followed in his footsteps. Prof. William P. Payne was the second of seven children, five of whom are now living, and his first knowledge of the " three R's" was obtained in the common schools of York State. Possessing a bright intellect and a retentive memory, he became an exceptionally well-informed young man, and at the early age of eighteen years he began teaching the "young idea" in his home district, but gave up this occupation in 1853 to enter the New York State Normal School, an institution from which he graduated in