Born in Cary, North Carolina, Page attended the Cary High School and Bingham Military School in Mebane, North Carolina.

Page married Flora Eliza Shaw on January 20, 1888, in Manly, North Carolina.

He returned to Aberdeen in 1920 and that year was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor (Cameron Morrison won the primary, while O. Max Gardner came in second).

He died in Aberdeen on October 3, 1933, and was interred in Old Bethesda Cemetery.

His elder brother was Walter Hines Page, Ambassador to Great Britain.