Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography

Thousands of short American lives — soldiers, inventors, preachers, governors, novelists — each given a paragraph: born where, did what, and why anyone remembered.

HomeP › Padelford, Seth – Page, Juliaette Nash

Padelford, Seth – Page, Juliaette Nash

Padelford, Seth

governor. He was elected governor of Rhode Island in 1869, and remained in office until 1875. He died Aug. 26, 1878, in Providence, R. I.

Page, Charles Edward

physician, author, was born in 1840 in Maine. He is a physician of Boston; and the author of How to Treat the Baby; Natural Cure of Consumption; Horses: their Feed and Feet; and Pneumonia and Typhoid Fever.

Page, Charles Grafton

public official, author, was born Jan. 25, 1812, in Salem, Mass. He was an examiner in the patent office at Washington from 1840, who published Psychomancy, Spirit Rappings, and Table Tippings Exposed. He died May 5, 1868, in Washington, D. C.

Page, Charles Harrison

JR., lawyer, state senator, was born Nov. 26, 1870, in Scituate, R. I. He practices law in his native city; and since 1895 has served as a member of the Rhode Island state senate.

Page, David Perkins

educator, author, was born July 4, 1810, in Epping, N. H. He was a prominent educator of Albany; and the author of Theory and Practice of Teaching, which was long popular. He died Jan. 1, 1848, in Albany, N. Y.

Page, Emily Rebecca

poet, was born May 5, 1834, in Bradford, Vt. She was a poet of Vermont whose work, which enjoyed local fame, is included in the volume, Lily of the Valley. She died Feb. 14, 1862, in Chelsea, Mass.

Page, Henry C

journalist, was born April 1, 1833, in Troy, N. Y. This wellknown journalist is the editor and owner of the Bayonne Herald; and has been president of the Editorial Press association of New Jersey.

Page, Horace Francis

congressman, was born Oct. 20, 1833, in Orleans county, N. Y. He was elected from Pennsylvania to the forty-third congress; and was re-elected to the forty-fourth, fortyfifth, forty-sixth, and forty-seventh congresses as a republican.

Page, Jefferson G

soldier, physician, surgeon, was born March 10, 1836, in Wilson county, Tenn. In 1862 he enlisted in company A, eighth regiment Kentucky cavalry; and was subsequently commissioned hospital steward. He is now a successful physician of Doniphan, Mo. In 1895 he was elected vice - president of the National league for Missouri; has been a delegate to numerous medical congresses and has contributed valuable articles to medical literature.

Page, John

agriculturist, state legislator, United States senator, governor, was born May 21, 1787, in Haverhill, N. H.

He served in the New Hampshire legislature in 1818, 1819, 1820, and 1835; and in 1836 was chosen a member of the executive council, and again in 1838. During the intervening year, 1837, he served as a senator in congress to fill a vacancy. He was governor of New Hampshire from 1839 to 1842. He died Sept. 8, 1865, in Concord, N. H.

Page, John B

governor, was born in 1826, in Rutland, Vt. He was governor of that state from 1867 to 1869. He died Oct. 24, 1885.

Page, Juliaette Nash

educator, poet, was born July 2, 1819, in Sherburne, N. Y. She taught private scholars in music, French, and intellectual and moral sciences. In 1846 she was married to General C. W. Page, and was left a widow in 1870. Her son, Charles F. N. Page, is the editor of The Western Gardener of Des Moines, Iowa, where he is a prominent seed merchant.

← Page, JohnPage, Olin W. Winfield →