History of Westfield, (Orleans County) Vermont United States of America

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Carroll Smalley Page, governor of Vermont, was born in Westfield, Vt., Jan. 10, 1843; son of Russell Smith and Martha Melvina (Smalley) Page; grandson of Francis and Martha (Hyde) Smalley and of James and Hannah (Cheney) Page, and a descendant of William Page of Derry, New Hampshire, and of Capt. Jedediah Hyde of Norwich, Conn. He attended the Lamoille county grammar school, Johnson, Vt., People's academy, Morrisville, Vt., and Lamoille Central academy, Hyde Park, Vt., and engaged in business, becoming an extensive dealer in raw calfskin. He was married in 1865 to Ellen Frances, daughter of Theophilus and Desdemona Patch of Johnson, Vt. He was a representative from Hyde Park in the state legislature, 1869-72; state senator, 1874-76; county treasurer and register' of the probate court ten years; a member of the Vermont Republican State committee, 1872-90, and its chairman, 1884-90; delegate to the Republican national convention of 1880; inspector of finance of savings banks, 1884-88, and was elected the forty-third governor of Vermont to succeed William Paul Dillingham, in 1890, serving till 1892. The honorary degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by Norwich university in 1894.

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

History of Westfield, (Orleans County) Vermont

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