[2] Eugene Baker, the step-grandfather, was toll-gatherer at Piermont Bridge, across Connecticut River.
His toll house, in which Page was brought up, was at the west end of the bridge, and in Bradford, her native place.
[2] Early teachers included her aunt, Maria R. Baker, and Miss Mary Belcher.
She wrote both prose and poetry for the "Carpet-Bag," "Ladies' Repository," and an annual called the "Rose-Bud" (Boston, 1854–55), as well as for Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber's publication.
[3] After the death of the step-grandfather, Page moved to Chelsea, Massachusetts, near Boston, with her grandmother Baker and Aunt Maria.
Here, she was connected for editorial work with one of the Boston weekly papers, and as poetical editor of Frederick Gleason's various publications.
Her grave is in Woodlawn Cemetery, in Everett, Massachusetts, her epitaph being her own words, "Through the darkness into light.