News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1897-11-03

voted his brain and the col
umns of his paper to the COM
pletion of this project to the end.
This he did without fear or
favor, or hope of reward" ex-
cept as he would be a sharer in
the benefits he believed the COM
munity would derive from its
accomplishment.
For the past twenty years he
has assiduously devoted himself
to his profession and preserves
his full vigor. From the Saw
yers, Peasleys, Keelers and
Hubbells, four strains of native
American and patriotic blood,
each more than $50 years in
length, run in his veins.
While he rejoices in the growth
and prosperity of the nation,
state and county, loyalty to
every interest of his native town
never waivers. For a half cen
fury its every interest has had
his active and earnest support.
He watches the progress of the
new school house with as much
interest as if he expected to be a
student within it's walls.
EV-COV q c PAGE
Ex-Gov. Carroll S. Page, the
subject of this sketch, was born
January 10, 1913, at Westfeld,
Vt. His father and mother were
both natives of Hyde Park, re-
turning to that town in 1916,
where c. S. Page has since re
sided.
Gov. Pages reputation rests
largely upon his extensive bust
ness in green calf skins. In the
hide and leather world Page
and Green Calf Skins" have come
to be almost synonymous terms !;
indeed, he has developed a bust
ness which is generally acknowl-
edged by the hide and leather
trade to be the largest of its kind
in the world, extending from the
Pacific coast on the west to
Asia on the east.
Although the hide and skin
business has absorbed the great
tr part of his time and attention,
he has, nevertheless, for many
years been largely interested in
lumber. At present he is the
president of the Fife Lumber Co.,
and treasurer of the Buck Lum-
Der Co., the Morse Manufacture
ing Co. and the Hyde Park Lum-
Der Co. At one time the lumber
concerns with which he was con-
nected were handling the pro-
duct of 35 different lumber man
ufacturing establishments in Yer
mont. But for the last few years
Mr.. Page has been gradually
closing out his lumber in terests to
enable him the better to attend
to his fast growing trade in hides
and skins.
Extensive as Mr.. Pages pri-
vate business has ever been, he
has always found time to take
an active interest in the public
affairs of his state. In 1869, at
the age of &c, he was elected
Representative to the General
Assembly, and was reelected in
1870. From 1874 to 1876 he
was the Senator from Lamoille
county. In 1880 he was a dele
gate to the Republican National
Convention at Chicago, which
nominated President Garfield
In 1884 he was made Inspector
of Finance, and as such, for four
years, had the supervision of the
savings banks of Vermont. For
seventeen years, from 1872 to
1889, he was the Lamoille coun-
ty member of the Republican
State Committee, and during the
last few years of his incumbency
of that office was chairman OF
that committee. From 1890 to
1892 he was Governor of Yer
mont. The Vermont Develop
ment Association, an organiza-
ton designed to aid in promot-
ing the material welfare and
prosperity of the state, elected
Mr., Page its first president at its
meeting last month.
Gov. Page has always been in
terested in educational matters
For more than a quarter of a
century he has been a member OF
the board of trustees of the La
noble Central Academy. He has
for a long time been the trustee
of the public school fund of Hyde
Park and has been chairman Of
the board of library commission
ers of the Hyde Park town pub
lie library since its organization
He has been for many years g
member of the board of trustees
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