Lamoille

PAGE, Carroll Smalley

Men of Vermont: Illustrated Biographical History of Vermonters & Sons of 
Vermont. Ullery. Brattleboro: Transcript Publishing Company, 1894, pp 294-296

Carroll Smalley PAGE, of Hyde Park [Lamoille County, Vermont], was born 10 
January 1843 in Westfield [Orleans County, Vermont], son of Russell S. and 
Martha Malvina (SMALLEY) PAGE. He was educated at the People's Academy at 
Morrisville, the Lamoille County grammar school of Johnson, and the Lamoille 
Central Academy of Hyde Park. Governor PAGE is identified with many of the 
important business enterprises of his county and state, being president of 
the Lamoille County Saving Bank and Trust Company, of the Lamoille County 
National Bank, of the Hyde Park Hotel Company, and of the Fife Lumber 
Company. He is treasurer of the Hyde Park Lumber Company, of the Morse 
Manufacturing Company, of the Buck Lumber Company, and a director of the St. 
J. & L. C. [St. Johnsbury and Lamoille County] Railroad.

He represented Hyde Park in the House from 1869 to 1872; was senator from 
Lamoille County from 1874 to 1876; county treasurer and register of probate 
court for the district of Lamoille for about ten years; in 1880 was a delegate 
to the Republican national convention in Chicago that nominated James A. 
GARFIELD for President; and from 1872 to 1890 was a member of the Republican 
state committee, serving from 1878 to 1884 as its secretary, and from 1884 to 
1890 as its chairman, his chairmanship covering the notable campaign of 1888. 
As a financier he became well known to the people of the state while filling 
the office of inspector of finance (examiner of savings banks) from 1884 to 
1888. He was elected Governor in 1890; to this position, which he filled 
until 1892, he brought the same administrative ability that has characterized 
the conduct of his private affairs.

First and always a business man, however, it is not in political or official 
life that Governor PAGE's reputation has become most widely extended, but 
rather as a dealer in Green Calf Skins, in which line of business his trade 
is confessedly the largest in America, if not in the world, extending not 
only to the Pacific coast, but through all the British provinces in America, 
and to England, France, and Germany. Governor PAGE is a Mason, an Odd Fellow, 
and a member of the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. On 11 
April 1865 Mr. [Carroll Smalley] PAGE was married to Ellen F., youngest 
daughter of T. H. and Desdemona PATCH, of Johnson [Lamoille County, Vermont]. 
They have three children: Theophilus Hull, Russell Smith, and Alice.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly