[3] He trained to be a merchant, clerking at dry goods stores in Portland, Maine and Haverhill.

[4] In 1848 Page moved to Danville, Vermont to accept the position of Cashier at the Caledonia Bank.

[6][7] Page became associated with Erastus Fairbanks in 1849 as Financial Agent for the Passumpsic and Connecticut Rivers Railroad, and relocated to Newbury.

[8] Later in 1849 Page was appointed Cashier of the Vermont Bank and moved to Montpelier, where he lived for the rest of his life.

[15] Page retired from most of his business interests in 1882, but continued to serve as President of the First National Bank until January, 1891.

They had one son, John W. Page (1847-1930), who worked with his father in Montpelier and later moved to Nebraska to raise cattle[19] and Louisiana to operate a rice plantation.