History of Farmington, (Ontario County) New York United States of America

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Elbridge Gerry Lapham, senator, was born in Farmington, N.Y., Oct. 18, 1814. He attended Canandaigua academy, N.Y.; was a civil engineer on the Michigan Southern railroad, and was admitted to the bar in 1844, settling in practice at Canandaigua, N.Y. He was a member of the constitutional convention of New York in 1867; a Republican representative from the twenty-seventh New York district in the 44th, 45th and 46th congresses, 1875-81; and was elected to the U.S. senate, July 22, 1881, to take the place of Roscoe Conkling, who had resigned. He took his seat in the senate, Oct. 11, 1881, and served until March 3, 1885, being chairman of the committee on fisheries. He died at Glen Gerry, Canandaigua Lake, N.Y., Jan. 8, 1890.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

William Harold Payne, educator, was born in Farmington, N.Y., May 12, 1836; son of Gideon Riley and Mary Brown (Smith) Payne; grandson of Gideon and Phoebe (Hill) Payne and of William and Lydia (Brown) Smith, and a descendant of Stephen Payne, born in Great Ellingham, Norfolk county, England, who came to America in 1638 in the ship Diligent, and settled first at Hingham, Mass., also maternally from the Brown, Peck and Smith families, who were among the first settlers of Providence, R.I. He was brought up on his father's farm, attended the district school, Macedon academy three terms, and New York Conference seminary one term. He taught school, 1854-58, in New York state; was principal of the Union school, Three Rivers, Mich., 1858-64; superintendent of schools, Niles, Mich., 1864-66; principal of Ypsilanti seminary, 1866-69; superintendent of schools, Adrian, Mich., 1869-79; professor of the science and art of teaching, University of Michigan, 1879-88; chancellor of tim University of Nashville and president of Peabody Normal college, Nashville, Tenn., 1888-190l, and in 1901 returned to the University of Michigan as professor of the science and the art of teaching. He received the honorary degree of A.M. in 1872 and LL.D. in 1888 from the University of Michigan, and the degrees of Ph.D. from the University of Nashville in 1888, and Litt. D. from Western University of Pennsylvania in 1897. He edited and published The Michigan Teacher, 1864-69, and is the author of: School Supervision (1875); Science of Education (1879); Outlines of Educational Doctrine (1882); The Editcation of Teachers (1901), and translator of: Compayre's History of Pealagony (1886); Lectures on Teachight (1888); Elements of Psychology (1890); Applied Psychology (1893), and Rousseau's Emile (1892).

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor