Original: Page was a Wake County farmer and lumberman. He and his wife, Catherine "Kate" Raboteau Page bought 300 a surrounding the railroad junction in 1854 and named his development Cary, after Samuel Fenton Cary (a former Ohio congressman and prohibitionist he admired).
Simplified: Allison Francis Page, a farmer and lumberman, and his wife, Catherine Raboteau Page bought 300 acres (1.2 kmÂ) of land surrounding the railroad in 1854 and named it Cary.