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.

 

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