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engaged in business, becoming an extensive dealer in raw calfskin. He was married in 1865 to Ellen Frances, daughter of Theophilus and Desdemona Patch of Johnson, Vt. He was a representative from Hyde Park in the state legis- lature, 1869-72 ; state senator, 1874-76 ; county treasurer and register of the probate court ten years ; a member of the Vermont Republican State committee, 1873-90, and its chairman, 1884-90 ; delegate to the Republican national convention of 1880 ; inspector of finance of savings banks, 1884-88, and was elected the forty-third governor of Vermont to succeed William Paul Dillingham, in 1890, serving till 1892. The honorary degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by Norwich uni- versity in 1894.

PAGE, Horace Francis, representative, was born in Orleans county. N.Y., Oct. 20, 1833. He attended the common schools of the county and in 1854 removed -to California where he engaged in business as a stage proprietor and mail contractor at Placerville. He was unanimously nominated for state senator by the Republican convention of El Dorado county, but was defeated. He was a Republican representative from the second district of California in the 43d-47th congresses, 1873-83, and was defeated in 1883 by James H. Budd of Stockton, Democrat.

PAGE, Hugh Nelson, naval officer, was born at North End, Gloucester (now Matthews) coun- ty, Va., Sept. 1788; son of John and Elizabeth (Burwell) Page ; grandson of the Hon. John and Jane (Byrd) Page ; and of the Hon. Mann and Judith (Carter) Page, and a descendant of Col. John and Alice (Luckin) Page. He entered the U.S. navy as a midshipman, Sept. 1, 1811, and the same year was ordered to Commodore Chauncey's squadron on Lake Ontario, but later joined Commodore Perry on Lake Erie, respond- ing to the call for volunteers. He received a wound

in the hand at the battle of Lake Erie, and had

the honor of bearing to Gen. W. H. Harrison

Commodore Oliver H. Perry's famous dispatch.

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^i^.^^..e,^<^'^t^ ^:^^^^^ He took part rp^f^-^^^ in the operations against Fort Mackinaw, and in the Mexican war against Monterey. He was promoted lieu- tenant 1. April 1818 ; commander, Feb. 28. 1838 ; captain, May 29, 1850 ; was placed on the reserve list, Sept. 13, 1855, and resigned his commission, April 19, 1861. He married first, in November, 1838, Imogen, daughter of Guy Wheeler, and secondly, July 13. 1848, Elizabeth P.. daughter of Holt Wilson, of Portsmouth, Va, He died in Norfolk, Va., June 3, 1871.

PAGE, John, governor of Virginia, was born at '' Rosewell," Gloucester county, Va., April 17, 1744; son of Mann and Mary Mason (Selden) Page ; grandson of Mann (1691-1730) and Judith (Carter) Page ; great-grandson of Matthew Page (1659-1703), and great 2 grandson of John (1627- 1692) and Alice (Luckin) Page. He was graduated from the CoUege of William and Mary in 1763, and was married about 1765 to Frances Burwell. He was a member of the house of burgesses ; of the colonial council, and the committee of safety, contri- buting liberally to the prose- cution of the Revolutionary!-, war ; a delegate to the state I'. Z'^'-Wj, constitutional convention of ^.^'^ July, 1776 ; lieutenant-govern- % ^y^^p'^^^':s>\ ^ or of the commonwealth; a "--- .,^- "'

representative from the seventh district of Vir- ginia in the lst-4th congresses, 1789-97; a Jefferson elector in 1801, and governor ofVirginia, succeed- ing James Monroe, 1802-05. Being constitutionally ineligible for re-election in 1805 he was succeeded by William H. Cabell. He was U.S. commissioner of loans for Virginia by appointment of President Jefferson, 1805-08 ; and a visitor to the College of William and Mary, appointed in 1776. At one time he was urged to take orders in the church, his friends desiring that he should become the first bishop of Virginia. He is the author of: Addresses to the People (1796 and 1799). He died in Richmond, Va., Oct. 11, 1808.

PAGE, John, governor of New Hampshire, was born in Haverhill, N.H., May 27, 1787; son of Jolin and Hannah (Rice) Green Page, and grandson of the Rev. Samuel Rice of Landaff, N.H. His father was a native of Lunenburg, Mass., who removed to Rindge, N.H., with his parents in 1762, and finally settled in Haverhill, Mass. John Page was prepared for college but did not enter, owing to his father's financial embarrassment which forced hiin to engage in farming. He was married in 1812 to Hannah, daughter of Nathaniel Merrill of North Haver- hill, Mass. He was appointed assistant U.S. tax assessor for Grafton county in 1813, and assessor in 1815 ; was a representative in the New Hampshire legislature, 1818-20 and in 1835, and register of deeds for Grafton county, 1828-34, with the exception of one year. He was elected to the state council in March, 1836. and in the following June to the U.S. senate as a Democrat to fill the vacancy caused bj' the resignation of Isaac Hill, and served until the close of Senator Hill's terra, March 3, 1837. He was re-elected to the state council in 1838, and was governor of the state, 1839-42. He took an active part in biiilding the Boston, Concord & Montreal rail- road. He died in Concord, N.H., Sept. 8, 1865.