Page Family - Solomon Page, MD - Obituary

 

As I was working on the Page family history today, I found this. I believe that Samuel Page sold his property in Juniata County, Pennsylvania and moved to Atchison, Kansas. From there they moved to Kings County, California. His oldest son Solomon Page was memorialized in Atchison. This is his obituary that reads:

PIONEER ATCHISON COUNTY                     PHYSICIAN PASSES AWAY

Porterville, Cal., Feb. 27

     Dr. Solomon C. Page, one of the pioneer physicians of Atchison county, Kansas, died at his home at Visalia, near here early yesterday morning, after a three weeks' illness with pleuro-pneumonia. The remains were taken to Fresno and cremated. The funeral occurred from the residence today and was private. Interment was in the Visalia cemetery.

     Dr. Page was a native of Juniata county, Pa., and was born July 16, 1845. His father, Rev. Samuel Page, was a Seventh-Day Baptist minister, and died here a number of years ago. Dr. Page was educated in the schools of his native state, after which he took up the study of medicine. In 1867-'68 he attended Bellevue Hospital 

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Medical college in New York. In 1867, he came to Kansas and located in Center township, in Atchison county, five miles south of Effingham, where he engaged in the practice of medicine and farming. Later, he moved to Effingham and practiced his profession there for many years. In 1879-'80 he took a course at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in St. Joseph, Mo., and graduated from that institution. In 1898 he moved to California, locating at Visalia, where he built up a large practice. He also owned a fine ranch near that place. Dr. Page's last visit to his old home in Atchison county was in 1913. He has a son, Presley Page, now living at Effingham, another in Kansas City, and a daughter at Pittsburg, Kansas. He is also survived by a widow.          

     Dr. Page was eminently successful as a practitioner. At the time of his death he had practically retired. The writer enjoyed a most pleasant visit with him a while back and found him

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very agreeably situated, with every comfort and convenience at his
command that one could ask for in old age. At that time he was apparently very rugged for one of his years. He was nearly 74 years of age at the time of his death. He was a regular reader of The Atchison Globe and seemed to take much interest in affairs in the old home county back in Kansas. - G. J. R.

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