Eugene Beauharnais Payne

Eugene Beauharnais Payne was a year old when, in 1836, his father, Mr. Thomas Hubbard Payne, with his wife and child, went to Chicago and bought a large tract of land in what is now Fremont, Lake County, Ill. In this region the family became pioneer settlers, and in the schools soon organized, General Payne had his early education. Later he graduated from the High School at Waukegan, Ill., and entered the first class of the Law Department of Northwestern …