During the Civil War Page enlisted in the Union Army as a private at the age of nineteen in Company A, 12th Rhode Island Infantry, and was mustered out July 29, 1863.

He returned to Rhode Island in 1869 and taught in a school in Scituate until the spring of 1870, when he enrolled at the law department of the university of Albany, New York.

Page was admitted to the bar the same year and started his practice in Scituate, and in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1872.

He also contested as a Democrat in the election of William A. Pirce to the Forty-ninth Congress, but the seat was declared vacant.

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