History of Cary, (Wake County) North Carolina United States of America

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Walter Hines Page, editor, was born in Cary, Wake county, N.C., Aug. 15, 1855; son of Allison F. and Katharine (Raboteau) Page; grandson of Anderson Page, and a descendant of the Page family in Virginia. He attended the Bingham, N.C., military school; was graduated from Randolph-Macon college, Va., in 1876: was a fellow in Greek at Johns Hopkins university under Dr. Gildersleeve, 1876-78; and was a teacher at the Boys' High school, Louisville, Ky., 1878-79. He was editor of the St. Joseph, Missouri, Daily Gazette, 1880-81; later became book reviewer and editorial writer on the New York World, and returning to North Carolina founded the State Chronicle, at Raleigh, which he edited until 1883, when he was engaged on the staff of the New York Evening Post. He was manager of the Forum, 1887-91; its editor, 1891-95; literary adviser of Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1895-99; editor of the Atlantic Monthly, 1896-99, and became editor of The World's Work in November, 1899. He was a member of the publishing house of Doubleday, Page & Co., of New York city, and of the University club, in New York. He is the author of The Rebuilding of Old Commonwealths, a book of essays toward the better training of the masses of the population of the Southern States (1902).

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Cary, (Wake County) North Carolina

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