Title
Mrs.
Last Name
Page
First Name
Alice
Middle Name
Maiden Name
Wilson
Nick Name
Place of Birth
Pontiac, MI
Date of Birth
1858-06-08
Place of Death
New York, NY
Date of Death
1942-02-08
Publication
The Eastern Gazette 2-19-1942, p.1
Obituary
DESCENDANT OF EARLY DEXTER FAMILY DIES Mrs. Alice Wilson Page, 84, widow of Walter Hines Page, editor and publisher, who was United States Ambassador to Great Britain during the first World War, died of pneumonia in New York Saturday February 8 at the home of her son, Frank C. Page. Mrs. Page was born in Pontiac, Michigan in June 8, 1858, and was married in 1880. Her husband died in December 1918. Since 1932 she has made her home with her only daughter Mrs. Charles G. Loring of Concord, Mass. and Chocorua, N. H. surviving besides her son, who is vice president of the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation, are two other sons, Ralph, W. Page of Chestnut Hill, Pa., and Arthur W. Page of New York City, vice president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Funeral services were held in the Memorial Church of Aberdeen, N. C. and burial was in the Page family plot in Bethesda Cemetery, Aberdeen. Mrs. Page was the daughter of Alice Copeland Wilson who was born in Dexter, and who was the granddaughter of Capt. Samuel Copeland one of the first settlers of Dexter. Mrs. Wilson was a cousin of Miss Alice F. Copeland of this town, Mrs. Page and her daughter, Mrs. Charles Loring, visited relatives, and friends in Dexter in August 1937.