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Ancestors of Henry Felch Page

Generation No. 3

      4. Dr. Alpheus Felch Page, born December 07, 1824 in Lymington, ME*+; died December 28, 1880 in Bucksport, ME. He was the son of 8. Rev. Caleb Fessendon Page and 9. Sarah B. Felch. He married 5. Eveleen Augusta Raiguel November 10, 1859 in Philadelphia, PA?.

      5. Eveleen Augusta Raiguel, born July 13, 1832 in Bucksport, ME; died February 06, 1881 in Bucksport, ME. She was the daughter of 10. William Raiguel and 11. Almira Nancy Badger.

Notes for Dr. Alpheus Felch Page:

DR PAGE was born in Lymington, Maine in 1824 and died of 'inflammation of the bowels' (appendicitis) in 1880. He had a black Newfoundland dog that trained itself to hold a stone in its mouth to refrain from barking at the doctors horse and carriage. It also was credited with saving the life of a child drowning in Penobscot Bay. --- recollection of DR HENRY F. PAGE, Jan 1997

ALPHEUS FELCH PAGE, MD graduated from Bowdoin Medical School in 1849. He practiced in Orland, Maine for two years, then moved to nearby Bucksport in 1851. He appears at 23 in the 1850 Census apparently as a border in Bucksport. He was president of the Maine Medical Association 1873 - 1874.

Alpheus' unkle, Horatio Nelson Page, MD had established his practice in Brewer, Maine across the Penobscot River from Bangor in the 1830's. Alpheus trained with him and subsequently established a practice in neighboring Bucksport. Alpheus' partner in Bucksport was another relation, Dr. Enoch Fessenden. Alpheus' younger half-brother (Albert Ferdnand Page) became a druggist in Bucksport. Unkle Nelson left Brewer in 1857 and moved his family to Massachusetts.

More About Dr. Alpheus Felch Page:
Buri: Bucksport, ME
Died (2): December 28, 1880, "Inflamation of the bowels" - appendicitis
Fact 9: 1873, President of the Maine Medical Association
Grad: 1849, Bowden College Medical School
Occu: Physician in Orland and Bucksport, ME

More About Eveleen Augusta Raiguel:
Fact 9: 1835, 3y/o when her mom died, GM helped raise her

Children of Alpheus Page and Eveleen Raiguel are:

	2	i.		Dr. Henry Felch Page,Sr., born July 12, 1870 in Bucksport, ME*+; died December 23, 1933 in Philadelphia, Pa; married Nancy Pendleton Nichols September 12, 1901 in Bucksport, Maine.
		ii.		Evelyn Raiguel Page, born February 21, 1867 in Bucksport, ME; died April 30, 1955 in Bucksport, ME; married Horace Freemont Webb December 06, 1892; born March 18, 1854; died June 1918 in Waverly, MA.

      6. Capt. Edward Payson Nichols, born June 05, 1844 in Searsport, ME*; died October 25, 1899 in Bucksport, ME. He was the son of 12. William Nichols and 13. Nancy Pendleton Nichols. He married 7. Martha Ann Mills December 04, 1873 in Bangor, ME.

      7. Martha Ann Mills, born June 12, 1843 in Levant, ME; died September 14, 1922 in Philadelphia, Pa. She was the daughter of 14. Luke Mills and 15. Ester Chase.

Notes for Capt. Edward Payson Nichols:
Many of the dates and locations for the Nichols family are taken from WFT 6010, vol. 3.

Captain Edward Payson Nichols commanded two vessels in his maritime career:
1) the Bark 'Clara', 1876 - 1880 ( lost near the Cape of Good Hope)
2) the Ship 'Frank Pendleton', 1882 - 1891.
He went to sea with his wife and daughters. Daughter Maud was born aboard the Bark 'Clara' in 1876. On both ships he and his family published and printed their own newspaper - 'The Ocean Chronicle - for distribution to friends and relatives. The children also printed a few issues of 'The Rolling Billow'.


Children of Edward Nichols and Martha Mills are:

3	i.	Nancy Pendleton Nichols, born August 22, 1875 in Searsport, ME*+; died January 29, 1941 in Philadelphia, Pa; married Dr. Henry Felch Page,Sr. September 12, 1901 in Bucksport, Maine.
	ii.	Maud Evelyn Nichols, born January 23, 1876 in the ' Bark Clara' at sea in the Pacific; died November 26, 1956 in Alameda, California; married Joseph Field Nichols December 22, 1905 in Bucksport, Maine; born November 19, 1877 in Searsport, ME; died December 19, 1934 in Alameda, CA.
	iii.	Grace Louise Nichols, born August 05, 1878 in Exeter, ME.

More About Grace Louise Nichols:
Immi: never married

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