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Index: US - WV - Kanawha - Oscar Floyd Payne

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Biographies of Kanawha County, WV

Biographical Sketches of Members of Congress, Members of the Legislature, 
Officers of the State Governement and judges of the Supreme Court of Appeals, 
West Virigina, 1917

Source:
West Virginia Legislative Hand Book and Manual and Official Register, 1917,
Compiled and Edited by John T. Harris, Clerk of the Senate, 
The Tribune Printing Co., Charleston, West Va.
pgs. 719 - 770

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

744

PAYNE, OSCAR FLOYD. (Democrat.) Address:
Charleston, West Va. Member of the House of Delegates
from Kanawha county.  Born in Palmyra, Fluvanna
county, Virginia, October 20, 1873; educated in the com-
mon schools; since coming to Kanawha county has been
intimately associated with its general development, having
large real estate, insurance and banking connections; is
also deeply interested in religious work, being President
of the Union Mission Settlement, of Charleston; elected
to the Legislature in 1916; during the 1917 sessions
served on the following committees: Temperance and
Prohibition, Roads and Internal Navigation, Arts, Science
and General Improvements and Printing and Contingent
Expenses..

Submitted by: Valerie Crook <vfcrook@trellis.net>

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