A native of Virginia, he served as the 13th justice of the Oregon Supreme Court for four months in 1862 to finish the term of Aaron E. Waite.

[1] The son of the Reverend Charles Page, he graduated from Miami University's law school in the state of Ohio.

[1] William Page was then appointed to fill Wait's remaining term on the bench by Oregon Governor John Whiteaker in May.

[2] After his time on the state's highest court, Page moved to Portland, Oregon where he continued to practice law until his death on April 12, 1897.

[1] The city of Albina, Oregon was laid out with a plat for the new town filed April 1873 by Page, Edwin Russell and George Williams.