Morris B. Payne

[1] He also reached the rank of major general in the Connecticut National Guard, commanding the 43rd Infantry Division at the beginning of World War II.

[3] Payne went abroad to France in 1917 with the Coast Artillery Corps, at which point Adams managed the office alone.

Due to his declining health in Payne's absence, he closed the office in late 1918,[4] and died in February 1919.

[7] One of Payne's buildings, the U. S. Post Office in New London, has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

In a 1921 publication detailing Connecticut domestic architecture, the work of Payne's firm was described as "...in the style so highly esteemed by the Founders.