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From: Tom Hesler <>
Subject: [InFounta] Davis Township Biography - James E. Page
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 23:22:07 -0500


Beckwith, H. W. History of Fountain County, Indiana. Chicago: HH Hill,
1881, p. ­ 459 – 460

James E. Page, railroad agent and postmaster,
Independence Station, son of James H. and Ellen
P. (Eldridge) Page, was born in Fairfield, Wayne
county, Illinois, February 13, 1843. He received
a fair English education at the select schools in
La Fayette, and the Institute at Waveland. His
father dying when he was an infant, his mother
returned home to Mount Carmel, Illinois, where he
lived till nine years old, when she married the
Rev. Harvey S. Shaw, Methodist minister. She died
at Monticello, White county, Indiana, May 14,
1858. Following this event he chose his uncle,
Richard H. Eldridge, of La Fayette, his guardian,
and lived with him and clerked in his drug store.
In the fall of 1861 his uncle obtained a
situation for him as hardware clerk in Terre
Haute. While there he was enrolled, Jul17, 1862,
in Co. E, 71st Ind. Inf. This regiment, with
eight others fought a severe battle at Richmond,
Kentucky, against 15,000 rebels under Gen. Kirby
Smith, and was captured. This occurred August 30,
1862, and lasted thirteen hours. The men were
paroled September 2. The 71st returned to
Indiana, and when exchanged was sent into
Kentucky to do guard duty on the Louisville &
Nashville railroad. At Muldraugh’s Hill, December
28, 1862, it was again captured, after holding
out eight hours with 600 men against 7,000
surrendered conditionally to Gen. John Morgan. He
paroled the men, and they returned a second time
to the state. The following winter and spring the
command was organized into a cavalry regiment,
and numbered the 6th. When, in 1863, Morgan made
his incursion into the state, the 6th joined in
the operations to oppose his crossing the Ohio,
and to harass and capture him afterward. In
September the regiment went to Camp Nelson via
Louisville. Companies E and K were detailed here
to go to Knoxville, Tennessee, as an escort for a
drove of cattle, and were there during the siege.
Next spring the regiment assembled at Camp Nelson
and were remounted. It moved south from here and
joined Sherman near Dalton, Georgia, and was
attached to Stoneman’s command. When the latter
went on his disastrous expedition to release the
Union prisoners, a part of the 6th helped compose
his force. Before the fall of the city the
remnant, with which Mr. Page was connected, was
sent back to guard the railroad between
Chattanooga and Atlanta, and in September went to
Nashville and was remounted. It moved thence to
Pulaski, where a part of the Union forces were
attacked by Forest, who, being defeated, was
pursued by all the troops into Northern Alabama.
The 6th proceeded to Dalton, Georgia and was at
that place when Hood began his invasion of
Tennessee, June 17, 1865, and was paid off and
disbanded at Indianapolis. After clerking a short
time again in the same store he left in Terre
Haute, he went to Carlinville, Illinois, and
engaged in the hardware business, first in
partnership with Harvey Finsley, and next Henry
Eldred. He returned to La Fayette, and in 1868
came to Attica as a life-insurance agent, and at
length was employed as a clerk and bookkeeper,
first in a drug and afterward in a hardware
store. In 1876 he came to Independence and took
charge of the station, and in January, 1877, was
appointed agent of the Wabash company. Next June
he received the appointment also of postmaster.
He was married December 25, 1866, to Miss Ellen
Elizabeth C., McCormick, of La Fayette, who was
born August 10, 1846. James Oliver, their son,
was born June 27, 1869. Mr. and Mrs. Page are
members of the Presbyterian church, and he is a republican.



Regards,
Tom Hesler


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