Biography: Winnebago County, Wisconsin: Charles C. Paige ************************************************************************ Submitted by Kathy Grace, December 2004 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ History of northern Wisconsin: containing an account of its settlement, growth, development, and resources, an extensive sketch of its counties, cities, towns and villages, their improvements, industries, manufactories, biographical sketches, portraits of prominent men and early settlers, views of county seats, etc. Chicago: Western Historical Co., 1881 p. 1159 Charles C. Paige, proprietor of foundry and machine shops; was born at Wentworth, Grafton Co., N.H., April 6, 1835. He learned machinist's trade at Manchester, N.H., in the Amoskeag locomotive works, where he was employed for four years; came to Oshkosh in 1856, clerked for his brothers until the spring of 1859, when he removed to Freeport, Ill., and ran a lumber-yard there four years; in the spring of 1863 he returned to Oshkosh, having purchased an interest in machine shops at this place in 1862; since October, 1872, he has carried on the business without a partner. He manufacturers saw-mill and flour-mill machinery, steam engines, steam pumps, turbine water wheels, steamboat machinery and general jobbing work; he is one of the directors of the Wolf River Transportation Co.; he also owns a steamboat and is interested in other enterprises. He is a member of A., F. & A. M., Blue Lodge, Chapter and Commandery, and of the A.O.U.W. Mr. Paige was married at Oshkosh, in November, 1862, to Lizzie J. Brayton, a native of Turner, Oxford Co., Maine. They have three children- Annie M., Leafie C. and Lizzie B.