[2] In late 1877, Horace Page made a compensation claim to the Federal government for losses during the American Civil War (1861-1865).

As a slave, Horace hired himself out and was running a livery stable in Washington, D.C., before the start of the war and had business in Warrenton and in Fauquier County.

He also took hired work to support his family and later attended night school taught by George Boyer Vashon.

[1] In the fall of 1873 he and his friend George W. Milford became the first black students to enroll at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

The pair faced great discrimination, but at the end of his sophomore year he won an oratorical contest which endeared him to his classmates.

[1] In 1883, he was elected president of the Missouri State Teachers' association and was reelected to multiple successive terms.

[1] In 1887, the university added college work to its curriculum and in 1891 it was designated a land-grant institution and embarked on additional building construction, and the school expanded again in 1895.

[5] One of the first professors Page hired was Josephine A. Silone, who arrived in 1881 and taught chemistry, elocution, and English literature.

[2] He was buried on the campus of Langston University,[5] and the tract where his remains were laid was called "Page Memorial Park".

[5] In 2018, Brown University renamed a six-story academic and administrative facility after Page and fellow alum Ethel Tremaine Robinson.

[4] Ralph Ellison was a student of Page at Douglass High School and the two had a difficult relationship at that time.