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William Oscar Payne
William Oscar Payne (January 10, 1879 – March 24, 1944) was a longtime professor of history at the University of Georgia. He served as athletic director at Georgia from 1936 to 1943.
Early life and education.
Payne was born in Carnesville, Georgia in 1879. He attended the University of Georgia where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1900 and a Master of Arts in 1902. While attending Georgia, he was the captain of the baseball team. He was a member
1, 1838 and was buried in Newtown Village Cemetery with his two wives, Elizabeth J. Chandler and Elizabeth Payne, and his children Mary E., Elizabeth, Sarah, William Payne, Ann M. and Robert Edmond Edmond, M.D.
His obituary from the Daily National Intelligencer (DC), Sep. 22, 1838, p. 3 reads,
"DEATHS. At Newtown, Conn. Hon. WILLIAM EDMONDS, aged 83 years. The deceased was engaged in the Revolutionary war, in which he was wounded: he was admitted