Warren Page Biography


	This biography appears on pages 984-987 in "History of Dakota 
	Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was 
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				WARREN PAGE. 

	Warren Page, now living retired in Henry, belongs to that class 
of public-spirited citizens who manifest their interest in the welfare 
of county and state by hearty cooperation in all movements which seek 
to promote the public good. He is now living retired but for many years 
was actively engaged in farming. He has always been a resident of the 
middle west, his birth having occurred in Wisconsin on the 9th of 
April, 1844, his parents being William and Permelia Page, who have long 
since passed away. The father always made farming his life occupation. 

	In pursuit of his education Warren Page attended the public 
schools of his native state and afterward entered the Wayland 
University at Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. When he had completed his course 
in that institution he turned his attention to farming in the Badger 
state and for ten years was thus employed. He then came west to South 
Dakota, settling in Kampeska township, Codington county, in 1882. There 
he homesteaded on section 30 and with characteristic energy began the 
development and improvement of his place. Year by year saw the farm 
further under cultivation and in course of time the crops gathered 
brought to him a substantial annual income. To his original claim he 
added until he became the owner of four hundred acres, which he 
continued to cultivate until 1907, when he put aside active business 
cares and rented his land, having in the meantime acquired a 
substantial competence that now supplies him with all of the comforts 
and some of the luxuries of life. 

	In June, 1869, Mr. Page was united in marriage to Miss Eliza 
Scott, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Winchester Scott, of Waupun, 
Wisconsin, the latter still living. Mr. and Mrs. Page have become 
parents of three daughters: Jennie, now the wife of John Peck, a 
resident of Hazel; Edith, the wife of Alexander Peck, also of Hazel; 
and Vera, the wife of Pierre Cosgrove, of Henry. Mr. and Mrs. Page 
attend the Congregational church, are interested in its work and 
generous in its support. Their influence is always on the side of 
progress, reform, justice and truth. 

	Mr. Page belongs also to the Elks lodge, the Knights of Pythias 
and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He votes with the republican 
party and for fourteen years he filled the office of county 
commissioner, to which position he was elected in the fall of 1895, his 
record in that connection being most commendable and exemplary. He has 
also served as town clerk and at the present writing—in 1915—is 
president of the school board of Henry. The cause of education finds in 
him a stalwart champion and he is doing much to uphold the interests of 
the schools in his town. He is entitled to wear the little bronze 
button of the Grand Army of the Republic, for he served for three years 
at the front with the boys in blue, enlisting as a member of Company K, 
Twenty-ninth Wisconsin Infantry, with which he went to the front, 
returning only when the regiment was discharged in 1865. He 
participated in a number of hotly contested engagements and his record 
as a soldier, indicating his loyalty and fidelity to his country, has 
been equaled by the record which he has made as a public-spirited 
citizen in times of peace.