Charles Page (June 2, 1860 – December 27, 1926) was a businessman and important philanthropist in the early history of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

After his father died when Page was an 11-year-old boy in Wisconsin, he left school early to try to help support his mother and siblings.

Concurrently, he founded the city of Sand Springs, Oklahoma as a model community to support the home, attracting industry and businesses.

In the following two years, he became chief of police for Tower, Minnesota, and then went to work for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.

The family moved to Ellensburg, Washington during the 1880s, on the east side of the state, where he became an agent for the Northern Pacific Railroad.

He knew first-hand that fatherless children often had to forgo a school education to help support themselves or their families by working full-time, getting stuck in menial jobs.

Given his recent economic gains, Page began to think how he could help others caught in the situation of his own mother and family.

He envisioned creating a planned community where widows and orphans could live and be supported to become more productive members of society.

He used part of the land to found and build the Sand Springs Home and helped establish various schools in West Tulsa, including Berryhill.

He quickly formed a friendship with the Tulsa Salvation Army captain, Brinton F. Breeding, and soon persuaded him to work in developing the land for the envisioned orphanage.

[1] In May 1909, Page rescued 21 orphans from a bankrupt orphanage in Tulsa, legally adopted them, and put Breeding in charge of a home for them.

As years passed and the old colony homes began to fall into disrepair, they were replaced with new two-bedroom brick cottages.

Page owned the Sand Springs Bottling Company, which was the dominant supplier of fresh water for domestic consumption.

Page's proposal was rejected when tests showed that the quantity of water he could produce at Shell Creek was inadequate to meet Tulsa's expected needs.

He donated land and lumber so that black families could build homes in Sand Springs, helping them rebuild their lives in the wake of the Tulsa Race Massacre that occurred May 31 - June 3, 1921.

He spent the last years of his life trying to help give African-Americans who relocated to Sand Springs, Oklahoma a place free from the Ku Klux Klan which was in every facet of Tulsa government at that time.

[5] Page continually campaigned to attract companies to move to Sand Springs in order to provide jobs in the community for his "kids".