Frederick Huff Payne

Payne was born on November 10, 1876, in Greenfield, Massachusetts, to Samuel Brewer Payne (1843-1912) and Eva Caroline Huff (1850-1917). He married Mary Blake (1878-1943) on November 8, 1900, in Parsons, Kansas. They had three children — Frederick Huff (1901-1989), Groverman Blake (1909-1963), and Carolyn Huff (1913-2001).^[1]

He was the United States Assistant Secretary of War from 1930 to 1933. He was promoted to a colonel in 1932.^[2] He died on March 24, 1960, in Greenfield, Massachusetts, at the home of his son, Groverman Payne.^[1] He was buried in Green River Cemetery in Greenfield, Massachusetts

• Frederick Huff Payne at Find a Grave