taught regularly during the term of the summer schools and after a time taught the winter schools also. In 18534 she also attended the State Normal School at Albany, being graduated therefrom in July, 1854. Later she taught for a few years, much of the time in the city of Watertown, and on January 16, 1859, she was married, as above stated, to William P. Payne. She taught no more after the regular fashion for many years; but her son was home educated up to the high school, and after the family came west she was matron of the seminary at Mitchellville during the year of their residence there. As before stated, she also taught in the high school at Nevada for five years, and during the residence at Boone she taught there for one year. Beyond this, she taught in teachers' institutes four years in New York in early womanhood and afterward taught in institutes for ten or more years in Story, Boone and other counties in Iowa.
Returning to Nevada , she took part at first in the general work of the newspaper, the Nevada Representative, but after a number of years she came to give especial attention--along with the other work--to a department for "Busy Women," which has now for many years been a recognized feature of the paper. When the movement for the formation of women's clubs reached Nevada she was one of the very first to become interested and she was a charter member of the Nevada Woman's Club, which was the first of the modern clubs to be organized in this city. With the movement for federation of such clubs she attended as a delegate the first state convention of the federation and was one of the first state officers. Since then she has been many times a delegate to such conventions, and later she was active in federating the 'different clubs in the city and was long president of the city federation. Her interest in all such matters continues with slight, if any, abatement. She has been hardly less active than her husband in behalf of the public library, as the highest concrete local expression of general educational progress ; and at her golden wedding in the library parlors she wore the dress, necessarily remodeled, in which she had been married fifty years before.
WILLIAM ORSON PAYNE.
William Orson Payne, editor of the Nevada Representative and compiler of the first volume of this history, is the only son of Mr. and Mrs. William P. Payne and was born at Lynn, Massachusetts, May 7, 1860. His babyhood was spent at Lynn and at Cambridgeport, where the family lived for only a short time, and his earlier boyhood was spent at Clinton, New York, where he had some associations never to be forgotten. After two more years of boyhood on the Hudson at Nyack his parents brought him west to grow up with the country. There was a year at Mitchellville and then the high school at Nevada. Two years in the high school and he grad-