Florence Lathrop Field Page (October 29, 1858 – June 6, 1921) was an American socialite and philanthropist.
Born into the esteemed Barbour family, Page became a notable society figure and philanthropist.
[6] Her parents were strong unionists, and, in the lead up to the American Civil War, her family left Alexandria, Virginia to settle in Chicago, Illinois, where their relative Thomas Barbour Bryan (her uncle) had been since 1852.
[1][7] She grew up in the suburb of Cottage Hill, today's Elmhurst, Illinois,[8] a place which her uncle Thomas Barbour Bryan has been regarded as the "father" of.
[10][11] Growing up, Florence was privately tutored at home, before being sent abroad to Paris, France, to finish her education, something which was fashionable for wealthy American families of the day to have their children do.
This trust contained all of the oil paintings that Henry Field had owned, except those that were family portraits.
The included works of Jules Breton, Jean-Charles Cazin, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, John Constable, Charles-François Daubigny Joseph DeCamp, Eugène Delacroix, Édouard Detaille, Narcisse Virgilio Díaz, Jules Dupré, Ernest Hébert, Ludwig Knaus, Jean-François Millet, Henri Rousseau, Adolf Schreyer, Constant Troyon.
[23][25] This was considered the most important accession that the Art Institute of Chicago had received in the fourteen years it had existed.
[29] They wed at Byrd's Nest Chapel on June 6, 1893, before sixty relatives and close friends.
Page (meaning that the Bryans' children –Jennie and Thomas we’re not only first cousins with her, but also were distant relatives of her new husband).
She donated substantial amounts of money to create public health nursing programs in Chicago, Hanover County, Virginia, New York City, and Washington, D.C.[33] She was a donor to the endowments of Associated Charities of the District of Columbia.
[2] She worked to provide relief to the civilian and military casualties in Italy of World War I.