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Page, Olin W. Winfield

poet. He is a poet of rare excellence, and wellknown throughout New England. He is the author of a published volume of collected poems, and has contributed extensively to current literature. PAGE, RICHARD CHANNING MOORE, physician, author, was born Jan. 2, 1841, in Keswick, Va. During the civil war he served in the confederate army. He entered as a private; was severely wounded at Gettysburg; and in 1864 was made chief of artillery for the department of southwest Virginia and East Tennessee on the staff of General John C. Breckinridge.

Since 1868 he has practiced medicine in the city of New York; has been house physician at Bellevue hospital, and house surgeon in the Woman's hospital. Since 1886 he has been professor of the diseases of the chest and general medicine in the New York Polyclinic. He is the author of A Practice of Medicine; Page's Physical Diagnosis; Chart of Physical Science; and numerous pamphlets on medical subjects. He is also the author of a Genealogy of the Page Family in Virginia.