DAVID A. PAGE
David A. Page, of the Allerton Implement Company, is
one of the industrious business men and public-spirited
citizens of Wayne county, where he is serving as a member of
the board of supervisors.
A large portion of his life has been passed in this
immediate vicinity, where for many years he actively engaged
in agricultural pursuits, but in 1905 he removed to Allerton
and identified himself with the commercial interests of the
town. Mr. Page
was born in Woodford county, Illinois, on the 15th
of April, 1865, and is a son of Moses P. and Martha E. (Banta)
Page, the father a native of New Hampshire and the mother of
Illinois. They
were married in the last named state and began their domestic
life in Woodford county, where the father engaged in farming
until 1878. In
the latter year he removed with his family to Wayne county,
Iowa, and purchased six hundred acres of land to the
cultivation and improvement of which he devoted his energies
during the remainder of his active life. About 1891 he
disposed of his interests here and went to Washington, where
he is still residing at the venerable age of eighty-nine
years. He has
long survived the mother, who passed away in 1891, at the age
of fifty-nine and is buried in the cemetery at Allerton. Of the marriage of
Mr. and Mrs. Page there were born eight children, our subject
being the sixth in order of birth.
The first thirteen years in the life of David A. Page
were passed in his native state. He was reared in very much the same
manner as all farmer lads, pursuing his education in the
public schools, and while engaged in the mastery of the common
branches becoming familiar with the duties of the
agriculturist. He
remained at home and assisted with the cultivation of the
fields and care of the stock until he was eighteen, when he
started out to make his own way in the world. Feeling he was
fully qualified to begin his independent career as an
agriculturist he rented a farm in McLean county, Illinois
which he cultivated with a good measure of success for eight
years. Coming to
Wayne county, at the expiration of that time, he bought two
hundred acres of land in Clinton township. The further
improvement and cultivation of this place engaged his energies
until 1904, when renting his farm he returned to McLean
county, Illinois, where for two years he engaged in farming
and then removed to Allerton, in order to give his children
the opportunity of better educational advantages than were
afforded in the country.
When he came to town Mr. Page engaged in the implement
business with C. P. Meredith, with whom he was associated
until 1912, when with W. T. Grimes and J. T. Kastes he bought
the establishment now conducted under the firm name of the
Allerton Implement Company.
In 1890, Mr. Page was married to Miss Nettie Muzzy, a
daughter of Alman and Mary (Packingham) Muzzy, natives of New
York, who subsequently went to Illinois, coming from there to
Iowa about 1903. Here
the father passed away in 1912, at the age of eighty-two
years, but the mother, who is in her seventy-third year, is
still living. Mrs.
Page, who was the fifth in a family of six children, was born
in October, 1865. Two
sons have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Page, as follows: Robert R., whose
birth occurred on the 23d of January, 1891, a student first in
the department of dentistry at the Iowa State University, Iowa
City, and now at Northwestern University; and Manley A., whose
natal day was November 16, 1899, attending the public schools
of Allerton.
Mr. and Mrs. Page are members of the Christian church,
and fraternally he is affiliated with Allerton Lodge, No. 321,
K. P., and with the Homestead Lodge, while Mrs. Page is a
member of the Pythian Sisters.
His political allegiance he gives to the democratic
party and he is now serving his second year on the board of
county supervisors. In
the course of his career Mr. Page has worked hard, directing
his undertakings in a practical and systematic manner, and in
the development of his interests is meeting with well deserved
prosperity.