California Biographies 

Source:
History of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura Counties, California
by: C M Gidney - Santa Barbara. Benjamin Brooks - San Luis Obispo. 
Edwin M Sheridan - Ventura
Volumes II - Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, ILL., 1917

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HIRAM B. PAYNE has been a resident of Santa Barbara County more than twenty-three years. His early 
experience was with the farming activities of the Middle West, and he has never regretted his choice 
of the Pacific coast as a location both for reasons of climate and residence, and also for the industrial 
opportunities it has afforded. He is one of the leading ranchers at La Patera near Goleta.  
 
Born in Oakland County, Michigan, November 10, 1865, a son of George and Abbey P. (Long) Payne, he 
spent his youth partly in Michigan and partly in Nebraska. In both states he attended the public schools 
and when he left school at the age of nineteen he took up the vocation to which he had been trained, 
that of agriculture. He was engaged in contending with the difficulties of practical farming in Nebraska 
until 1889. In that year he started west, and in and about Spokane, Washington, he found employment 
for several years. In 1893 Mr. Payne came to La Patera in Santa Barbara County, and in this locality has 
been one of the active and enterprising farmers since that date. His farm comprises fifty-seven acres, 
and the crops from which he has derived the greatest revenue are walnuts and beans.  
 
In matters of politics he is a republican, and is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows 
and belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church at Goleta. In 1903 at Ventura he married Maria 
Isenhour.