1854. In the spring of that year he began following his old calling in Sackett's Harbor, continuing there for three years, at which time he entered Tuft's College, Mass., where he remained two years, after which he became a minister of the Universalist Church, and for three years was pastor of the Second Universalist Society of Lynn, Mass. The following year was spent in attending lectures in the scientific and theological departments of Harvard University, and from 1863 until 1871 he was pastor of the 'Universalist parish at Clinton, N. Y., and while there taught the natural sciences in the Clinton Liberal Institute. Following this, from .1872 to 1873, he was pastor at Nyack on the Hudson. In 1874 he came westward to Iowa and took charge of the Mitchell Seminary, at Mitchellville, but in the fall of 1875 he came to Nevada and for the following five years had charge of the public schools of the town. The two following years were spent at Boone, Iowa, as associate editor of the Boone Republican, but since that time he has been editor and proprietor of the Representative, its reputation as one of the leading journals of this portion of the State being well established. The editorial policy of the paper is directed by men of good judgment, and wields no slight influence in directing the proper steps to be taken for the successful carrying out of worthy movements. Mr. Payne was married on the 16th of January, 1859, to Miss Adaline M. Brown, whose birth occurred in Jefferson County, N. Y., November 12, 1834, her parents being Orville and Lovisa (Phelps) Brown, natives of the Empire State, the former born January 27, 1805, and died June 13, 1882, and the mother born June 22, 1812, and died April 15, 1886. Mrs. Payne attended the public and select schools of her native county until she was eighteen years of age, after which she entered the New York State Normal School at Albany, and graduated the same year as did her future husband, Mr. Payne, in 1854. She first began teaching school at about the age of fourteen years, and with the exception of some twelve years has followed this calling ever since, and is now one of the most thorough and best-qualified educators in the State of Iowa. Since the purchase of the Representative, she has written many articles of interest for that journal, which are read with appreciation by all, for they indicate a delicacy, refinement and intelligence of no ordinary degree. She has borne her husband one son—William O. (who is now a clerk of the committee of coinage, weights and measures, a position he secured upon the organization of the List Congress. He was born in Lynn, Mass., May 7, 1860, and after coming to Iowa he entered the Nevada High School, graduating from the same in 1877. The following year he entered the Iowa State University, at Iowa City, and was graduated from the classical course in 1882, and the law department in 1883. Since that time he has been actively engaged in editing the Representative in connection with his father, and has proven himself to be exceptionally intelligent and well posted. During the session of the Twenty-second General Assembly of Iowa, he was first assistant clerk of the House of Representatives, and discharged his duties very efficiently. He was married December 15, 1886, to Miss Jessie Dickens, of Madison County, Iowa, a successful teacher, whose educational work was begun in Story County.
John Peck, one of the extensive farmers and stock-raisers of McCallsburg, Iowa, is a native of Vermont, born in 1853, and is the sixth in a family of seven children born to the marriage of James Peck and wife, nee Sheldon, the former a native of Vermont. The father was born in 1820, grew to mature years in Vermont, and