Charles Payne, a clergyman, revised the hymn-book of the Methodist denomination in the late 19th century. He was president of Ohio Wesleyan University

Ohio Wesleyan University

Ohio Wesleyan University is a private liberal arts college in Delaware, Ohio, United States. It was founded in 1842 by Methodist leaders and Central Ohio residents as a nonsectarian institution, and is a member of the Ohio Five — a consortium of Ohio liberal arts colleges...

 and an author.

He was born in Taunton, Massachusetts

Taunton, Massachusetts

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 on October 24, 1830, received an A.B. from Wesleyan University

Wesleyan University

Wesleyan University is a private liberal arts college founded in 1831 and located in Middletown, Connecticut. According to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Wesleyan is the only Baccalaureate College in the nation that emphasizes undergraduate instruction in the arts and...

 in Middletown, Connecticut

Middletown, Connecticut

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 in 1856, and an A.M. from the same university in 1859. Payne studied at the Biblical Institute in Concord, New Hampshire

Concord, New Hampshire

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 and joined the Providence Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1857. Subsequently, he erected St. John's church in Brooklyn, N.Y. at a cost of $200,000 and the Arch Street church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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 at a cost of $260,000. He was president of Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio

Delaware, Ohio

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 from 1876 to 1888.

Payne was an organizer, member, and principal contributor of the committee to revise the hymn-book of his denomination in 1876, a delegate to the General Methodist Conferences of 1880, 1884, 1888, 1892 and 1896, and a delegate to the Ecumenical conference in London in 1881. He traveled extensively in Egypt, Europe, Greece, the Holy Land, and Syria.

He received the honorary degrees D.D. from Dickinson College

Dickinson College

Dickinson College is a private, residential liberal arts college in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Originally established as a Grammar School in 1773, Dickinson was chartered September 9, 1783, five days after the signing of the Treaty of Paris, making it the first college to be founded in the newly...

 in 1870 and LL.D. from Ohio State University

Ohio State University

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 in 1875. Payne is the author of, among other works:

• The Social Glass, and Christian Obligation (1868)
• Daniel, the Uncompromising Young Man (1872)
• Young People's Half-Hour Series (1872)
• Methodism, its History and Results (1881)
• Women, and their Work in Methodism (1881)
• Temperance (1881)
• Education (1881)
• Guides in Character Building (1883)

He died at Clifton Springs, New York

Clifton Springs, New York

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on May 5, 1899.