J. and Charles M., all at home. Until Grant's second term, Mr. O'Neil was a stanch Republican, but he then united with the Greenback party, and at the present time belongs to the Union Labor party.
C. P. Page, farmer and stock-raiser, resides on Section 22, Richland Township. He is a native of Marshall County, Va., born in 1822, being the sixth child born to Nathaniel and Annie (Conner) Page, both of whom were natives of Virginia. The father was a soldier in the War of 1812, under W. H. Harrison, and the grandfather was a major in the Revolutionary War, and lost $60,000, which he spent in buying shoes for his own regiment. Mr. Page, Sr., died when our subject was quite small, and his widow afterward contracted a second marriage and died in 1884, at the advanced age of ninety years. By her marriage with Mr. Page she became the mother of eleven children, nine of whom grew to maturity, and only five of whom are now living, viz.: Maria (deceased), Hannah (now Mrs. Blake, of Marshall County, Va.), Thomas (of Marshall County, Va.), Joseph (deceased), C. P., Lydia (now Mrs. Cook, of Cincinnati, Ohio), Armenia (now Mrs. Grout, of Cincinnati), and John, Catherine and William, all deceased. By her second marriage she became the mother of one son—Samuel McArdle. C. P. Page attained his growth in his native State, his educational advantages being extremely limited, and at the age of sixteen years he left Virginia and went to Marion County, Ohio, and for the next fifteen years he made his home in that State. He was married in Morgan County, Ohio, in 1844, to Miss Sarah A. White, daughter of Edward and Nancy (Rush) White, natives of Pennsylvania. She was born in Somerset County, Penn., in 1823. Their wedded life has been blessed with three children: Irene (now Mrs. McLane, is living in Colo, Iowa; she has three children: Sarah A., Lulu and Ellen), Celinda (now Mrs. Chitty, of this township; she has two children: Jacova and Christopher), A. Jay (married Miss Lizzie Day and is living at home; they have one child—Lydia). They also adopted a daughter—Nancy J., who now makes her home with Mrs. Chitty. Mr. Page was called upon to mourn the loss of his wife, who died in 1879. In 1855 he came from Ohio to this county, and entered 160 acres of Government land, for which he paid $1.25 per acre, and immediately commenced improving it. At that time, his nearest market was Davenport, on the Mississippi River, a distance of over 100 miles, and when the railroad came to Marengo, a distance of sixty miles, it was considered a very convenient market. It would generally take five or six Days to make a trip to the river, and often the money received for produce would not be accepted for paying taxes. At the time of his settlement, the entire county voted in Nevada, and the strife was not between Republicans and Democrats, but between the north and south side of the slough at Nevada. Since purchasing this tract of 160 acres, Mr. Page has added another forty acres to his possessions, and now owns one of the finest farms in the county. He has given all his children a good education, his son Jay, who is now serving his fourth term as township assessor, having received his education at Brown's College, Valparaiso, Ind. He has always taken an active part in the politics of his county, casting his vote with the Republican party, and socially, he belongs to Nevada Lodge No. 404, I. O. O. F.
Lyman Patridge. No name is more closely associated with the farming interests of the county than the one that heads this sketch, for it is borne by a man who is progressive in his ideas, and, during his residence in this county,