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Jesse D. Payne
Henry County
Born in Tennessee in 1803. He married his wife, Artemitia, in Greene, Tennessee on July 9, 1825. The couple moved to Indiana before continuing on to Iowa in 1836. In 1839, Jesse D. Payne and Lawson B. Hughes of Henry County, and William Patterson of Lee County, were significant in settling the dispute between the southern Iowa and Missouri border, also known as the Honey War. The committee negotiated that both Iowa Governor Lucas and Missouri Governor Boggs call off their militia and allow the federal government to decide the boundary. Payne represented Henry County as a Councilor at the First and Second Legislative Assemblies of the Iowa Territory. When not serving in the Legislature, Payne practiced medicine. He died in 1846.
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