Loren M. Page's obiturary, Grand Rapids, Kent, County, Michigan

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Full Context of Michigan Historical Society Records, Vol. 11


Loren M. Page, one of the quiet and yet always active citizens of Grand 
Rapids, whom everybody knew, died on Sunday, May 16, 1886. He was one of 
the very early comers, a pioneer. He was born at Concord, Vt., March 29, 
1811, and his boyhood was spent on a farm. Then he learned the painter's 
trade, serving a three years' apprenticeship in Canada, and working there 
some seven years, when, at the age of 23, he returned to Vermont, 
alternated between painting and district school teaching, till the fall of 
1836, when he came to Grand Rapids. Soon afterward he married Miss Jane 
Soper. He passed a life of incessant labor--was one of those never happy 
without work--and experienced almost all phases of alternate success and 
reverses, hopes and disappointments--always an unpretentious man, yet 
companionable, social and friendly. Five sons went out to the war, and one 
of them returned without feet, both having been shot off. Mr. Page stuck to 
labor till very near his last days, and maintained a good degree of 
cheerfulness and geniality. Old residents, those who have been familiar 
with his daily walk for almost fifty years, all remember him kindly, and 
sigh even while feeling that a good man has gone to his rest.