Biographical Sketch of

Albert W. Page

Transcribed by Joan Benner for the Marquette Co WI Pages



Source: Portrait and Biographical Album of Green Lake, Marquette and Waushara Counties, Wisconsin, 
published 1890 by Acme Publishing Co., Chicago, Pages 350 - 351

Albert W. Page is extensively engaged in farming and stock-raising on 
section 36, in the town of Berlin, Green Lake County, and also owns 
and operates a cheese factory. He now owns 210 acres of fine land, and 
the entire farm is under a high state of cultivation. It is furnished 
with good buildings, including a substantial residence and barns and 
outbuildings, which are models of convenience, together with the latest 
improved machinery. He keeps abreast of the times, and is familiar with 
all interests calculated to advance farming enterprises. He raises a 
high grade of cattle, sheep, horses and hogs, some being thoroughbred, 
and deserves no little credit for his efforts to advance the grade of 
stock in the county. In 1888 he and his brother built the first cheese 
factory of Berlin Township, outside of the city, and they now do a 
flourishing business in that line.

Mr. Page was born in the town of Berlin, June 26, 1850, and is the son 
of Samuel F. and Susan (Fuller) Page. His father was born in Devonshire, 
England, April 20, 1816, and when sixteen years of age came with his 
brother to America. They landed in St. John's, New Brunswick, and found 
after paying expenses of the trip, that they had but one shilling 
remaining. They walked from St. Johns to Bath, Maine, where Samuel Page 
secured employment, but after working for a time he went to Lowell, 
Massachusetts. Shortly afterward, he obtained the position of watchman 
in the Merrimac Cotton Factory, which position he held for five years. 
In the latter part of May, 1846, he started for the territory of 
Wisconsin, believing that he might better his condition in the new and 
growing West. He arrived in Green Lake County on the 5th of June, and 
shortly afterward entered a quarter-section of land on section 36, in 
the town of Berlin, where he has since made his home. From a humble 
position he has risen, step by step, to one of wealth and aflfuence, and 
is now the owner of 330 acres in this county and 740 acres in Missouri, 
the aggregate being 1,070 acres. When we consider the obstacles and 
disadvantages against which Mr. Page has had to contend we cannot but 
marvel at his success. He never attended school until after coming to 
this country, and then went to the district school but two winters, 
feeding forty head of cattle and splitting wood for three fires during 
that time for his board. He desired to learn, however, and became a good 
reader and writer, and observation and experience added much to his 
store of knowledge. He was crippled in his early manhood by an accident, 
but notwithstanding that disadvantage, he worked harder than many able-
bodied men. He was killed by a runaway team Nov. 11, 1874. His wife, 
who still survives him, is a member of the Free-Will Baptist Church. He 
supported the Whig party and afterward became a Republican, and was one 
of the leading men of the community. He was the father of three children,
Albert W., Clark and Lucy.

Our subject received his primary education in the district schools, and 
afterward attended the Berlin High School for one year. He left the 
parental roof in 1873, and went to Dade County, Missouri, where he spent 
three years, when he returned to take charge of his father's estate. He 
and his brother operated the farm in partnership, and as before intimated,
he is one of the leading business men of the community. He possesses much 
mechanical genius, and set up the first binder in the town of Berlin. 
He has been a resident of the town for thrity-six years, and is accounted 
one of its valued citizens, highly esteemed by all who know him. He served
four years as Side Supervisor, and casts his ballot with the Republican 
party.

On the 26th of October, 1877, Mr. Page led to the marriage altar Miss 
Eliza Payn, daughter of Alonzo and Mary J. (McClintlock) Payn. She was 
born in the town of Berlin, on the 16th of April, 1854, and their union 
has been blessed with one child, a son, Roy A.
  





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