Benjamin F. Payne
Benjamin F. Payne, farmer, P. O. Nelson, was born May 20, 1851, in Nelson, son of Ketchel B. and Mary Jane (Chaffee) Payne, natives of New York and Vermont respectively. (See sketch of K. B. Payne.) Our subject availed himself of the advantages of a common school education, and has devoted his life to farming, in which he has been pronouncedly successful. He was married September 20, 1871, to Miss Belle Brown, born December 30, 1854, in Parkman, daughter of James and Susan (Hannah) Brown. By this union there is one son—Algernon, born June 8, 1872. Mr. Payne purchased his present farm in 1872, and has a fine herd of Shorthorn cattle. During the spring he engages quite extensively in the manufacture of maple sugar, having an orchard of 800 maple trees. He is regarded as one of the promising young men of the county. He is now serving Nelson Township as Constable.
From History of Portage County, Ohio, Warner, Beers & Co., Chicago, 1885