Payne
Payne names 7 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Payne JOHN, an English poet and Oriental scholar
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOHN, an English poet and Oriental scholar; born in London, Aug. Au 23, 1842. He studied for the bar, and in 1867 became a solicitor. Among his works are: "The Masque of Shadow" (1870); "Intaglios" (1871); "Songs of Life and Death" (1872); "Lautrec" (1878); a translation of the "Poems of Francis Villon" (1878); "New Poems" (1880); "Francis Villon-a Biographical Study" (1881); a close and scholarly translation of the "Arabian Nights' Entertainments," with the addition of those volumes of "Arabian Tales" not included in the common (1882); and a translation of the "Rubaiyát" of Omar Khayyám, including over 800 quatrains, several hundred more than had been before translated (1897). He also made a translation of Dante's "Divina Commedia," which was unpublished. He translated and adapted a number of works including "Poems of Hafiz" (1901); "Flowers of France" (1907) etc. Died 1916.
Payne JOHN HOWARD, an American dramatist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOHN HOWARD, an American dramatist; born in New York, June "Gleams of Memory" (autobiograph- 9, 1792. At the age of 16 he made his first appearance at the Park Theater in the character of Young Norval with brilliant success. He also played in England and Ireland. He visited London in 1813 and there founded "The Opera Glass." In 1832 he retired from the stage and in 1851 was appointed United States consul to Tunis. He wrote, translated and adapted over 60 plays, but is most famous as the author of "Home, Sweet Home," originally in the opera of "Clari." He died in Tunis, April 10, 1852. In 1883 his remains were removed to the United States and interred in Oak Hill cemetery, near Washington, D. C. JOHN BARTON PAYNE
Payne JOHN BARTON, Secretary of the Interior of the United States
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOHN BARTON, Secretary of the Interior of the United States. Born in Virginia 1855, and admitted to the bar in West Virginia in 1876. In 1883 he removed to Chicago where he practiced law and in 1893 was elected Judge of the Supreme Court of Cook In 1898 he resigned his judicial poco. sition and entered the firm of Winston, Payne, Strawn and Shaw, in which he remained until 1918. In that year he became counsel for the Shipping Board of the United States Government and later became its chairman. In 1920 President Wilson appointed him Secretary of the Interior.
Payne BRUCE RYBURN, an American educator
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
BRUCE RYBURN, an American educator, born at Morganton, N. C., in 1874. He graduated from Trinity College, N. C., in After serving as instructor in several institutions he was appointed professor of philosophy and education in William and Mary College in 1904. From 1906 to 1911 he was professor of psychology at the University of of Virginia. In the latter year he was appointed president of the George Peabody College, of Nashville, and was a member of many important societies, and was the author of the work of educational systems in various European countries.
Payne WILLIAM MORTON, American educator and author
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WILLIAM MORTON, American educator and author. He was born at Newburyport, Mass., in 1858, and after leaving school held a position in the Public Library at Chicago, taught in high school, and acted as literary editor of the Chicago "Morning News," Chicago "Evening Journal," and "Dial" He varied the rest of his time by writing books and lecturing. His works include: "The New Education"; "Little Leaders"; "Various Views"; "Greater English Poets of the Nineteenth Century"; "Leading American Essayists"; "Björn stjerne Björnson"; and translations of Segurd Slembe and Ibsen. He died in 1919.
Payne SERENO ELISHA, American legislator
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
SERENO ELISHA, American legislator. He was born at Hamilton, ilton, N. Y., in 1843, studied at the University of Rochester, and was admitted to the bar in 1866. He became first city clerk, then supervisor, district attorney and head of the education board at Auburn and, elected in 1883, for almost thirty years served in the House of Representatives. In politics he was a Republican, and specialized in tariff legislation, being largely responsible for the Payne-Aldrich Act of 1909. He died in 1914.
Payne WILL, an American journalist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WILL, an American journalist, born in Whiteside co., Ill., in 1865. He was educated in the common schools. In 1890 he began newspaper work in Photo, Ewing Galloway AVENUE OF ROYAL PALMS, NEAR HAVANA, CUBA Enc. Vol. 7-p. 148 Publishers' Photo Service
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Of the seven Paynes gathered here, one has outlasted the rest: John Howard Payne, whose song Home, Sweet Home from the 1823 opera Clari is still sung, though he is now equally remembered for something Collier's does not mention -- the papers he compiled on Cherokee tradition, gathered after Georgia authorities arrested him in 1835, which remain a source for historians of the Removal. John Barton Payne, described in 1921 only as Wilson's new Secretary of the Interior, left office weeks later and went on to chair the American Red Cross from 1921 until his death in 1935, a far longer public role than the cabinet post. Sereno Payne survives in every American history textbook through the Payne-Aldrich Tariff of 1909, remembered less as tariff reform than as the measure that split the Republican Party; he was also the first man to hold the title of House majority leader. The two literary men have faded unevenly: John Payne's translations of Villon and of the Thousand and One Nights were quickly overshadowed by Richard Burton's version, which leaned heavily on Payne's work, while William Morton Payne's criticism and Will Payne's magazine fiction are now read by almost no one, and Bruce Ryburn Payne's George Peabody College was absorbed into Vanderbilt University in 1979.
Written for this edition, 2026.