According to an Anthony, Kansas, obituary James G. Bayne was a native of Kentucky, but then moved to Ohio in early boyhood.

He was a farmer, orator, and very active in politics. He was a member of the Free Soil Party, a short-lived political party active in the 1848 and 1852 presidential elections, and in some state elections. It opposed expansion of slavery into the western territories.

Later a member of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Illinois in 1870, he was a candidate for Congress on the Greenback ticket in 1876, and candidate for Lieutenant-Governor of Kansas on the Greenback ticket in 1882. The Greenback Party (known successively as the Independent Party, the National Independent Party, and the Greenback Labor Party), was an American political party with an anti-monopoly ideology which was active between 1874 and 1889. The party fielded Presidential tickets three times—in the elections of 1876, 1880, and 1884, before fading away.

Judge Bayne was a promoter of first railroad built into Anthony, Kansas.

-1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880 FC records state he was born in Ohio. Civil War Draft Registration states he was born in Ohio. Illinois history states he was born in Brown County, Ohio. He was married 12/28/1841 in Brown County, Ohio.

- A copy of this genealogy was found in the Wright Family Bible. It was probably written by Malinda Bayne, wife of James Wright, the original owner of the Bible:

Henry Bayne Married Sophia Devaul their children -

William Bayne

Susan Dragoo

Martha

John Bayne

Rebecca

Precilla Howard

Gemima Reed

Mary

Samuel Bayne

To the side of these children was written -

This side of the House is decended from Lord Deleware of England.

Below the above information was written -

Samuel Bayne

Eleanor West

and

Elizabeth Huggins

m. 24 Dec. 1807

Adams Co. OH

Samuel - b. 1782, Maryland

To the side of the above information was written -

Julia Ann Bayne

Melinda "

Eleanor "

Nancy "

Abi "

Mary "

James Gilliland "

Susan "

John "

Milton Huggins "