William Hamilton Page

William Hamilton Page (1829–1909) was a type designer and owner of William Page & Company, a leading manufacturer of wood type for letterpress printing.

[1] Page worked as a printer for several newspapers before learning the trade of wood type manufacturing from John Cooley in South Windham, Connecticut.

In 1859 he withdrew from this partnership and became partners with Samuel Mowry, forming William Page & Company, near Norwich, Connecticut.

This firm quickly became the largest and most efficient manufacturer of wooden type in the United States.

Page was a prolific designer of typefaces, all of them typical of the heavily ornamented style of the mid-nineteenth century.