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WILLIAM B. PAGE, M. D., who has been a resident of Smithton since 1883, is a representative of the homeopathic school of medicine. His father, William H. Page, who is a retired farmer, also makes his home in this city. Formerly he conducted a successful drug business. He is a native of New York, and when establishing a home of his own married Ariadna, daughter of Charles G. Otis, who died in 1872, aged thirty-nine years. Her only child now living is William B , of this sketch. The father was married a second time, the lady on this occasion being Susan Bohon, the daughter of Walter Bohon, an old settler of this county, who died in 1884 at the age of ninety-two. To them were granted three children, Carrie, Addie and George, all at home.

The subject of this sketch was born in Darlington, Lafayette County, Wis., July 15, 1857. He began reading medicine in 1879, and subsequently entered the medical department of the Michigan State University at Ann Arbor, from which he was graduated with the Class of ‘83. At once locating in Sedalia, Mo., he remained there from July until October, when he came to Smithton and from the first has had a good practice.

In politics the Doctor is a Republican. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the United Workmen and the Modern Woodmen, being Noble Grand of the first-named society. He is a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, with which denomination his mother identified herself after coming to this place, owing to the fact that there was no Congregational society here.