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BENJAMIN P. PAYNE, farmer, P. O. Aberdeen, was born in this township in 1822, and is a son of B. C. and Harriet (Hutchison) Payne, natives of Virginia. B. O. Payne came, when a young man, to Ohio, and settled in this township in the year 1801. He worked at the cabinet-making trade till after his marriage, then went to farming. He was married to Harriet, the daughter of William Hutchison, of Virginia, who settled in this township in 1790, and is the oldest settler of whom we have any record. The father of our subject followed farming after his marriage, and resided in the township till his death. He was constable about ten years, and served in the war of 1812. To them were born seventeen children, namely, Charlotta, William, George, Sandy, Rebecca, Mary A., Louisa, Martha, James, Benjamin P., Susan, John, Elizabeth, Sophronia, Samuel, Fanny J. and Harriet. Mr. Payne died in September, 1867, aged eighty-three years; his wife died in 1863, at the age of seventy-three years. Both were members of the Baptist Church of Aberdeen, and took much interest in religious work. Our subject was reared on the farm, and in the township has lived all his life, with the exception of one year. He was married, February 10, 1851, to Mary J., the daughter of John and Margaret Minten, of Adams County, Ohio. To them have been born five children, namely, Frances J. Hutchison, Belle, J. R., W. H. and Harriet (deceased at the age of four years). Mrs. Payne belongs to the Baptist Church of Aberdeen, to which she has been connected since the age of fifteen years; she was born in Adams County, Ohio, in 1831. Her parents settled in Brown County about 1804, and soon after removed to Adams County, where they lived till his death, in 1859, at the age of eighty years. She died when Mrs. Payne was a small child. They were parents of one child — Mrs. Payne. By his first wife he had nine children, namely, Jane, Samuel, Margaret, Sarah, William, Eliza, Catherine, Anna and Polly. The mother was a member of the Methodist Church. Mr. Payne has been fairly successful during his life.