A history of the Baptists in Missouri : embracing an account of the organization and growth of Baptist churches and associations : biographical sketches of ministers of the gospel and other prominent members of the denomination : the founding of Baptist institutions, periodicals, etc. . illiam M. Page—was born January 16, 1815, and emigratedto St. Louis in the fall of 1833. He returned to New Hampshirein 1836, and was married to Miss Eliza Jaquith of that state, andcame again to St. Louis. In 1842 Mr. Page professed conversion,and with eleven others, among whom were Edwin Dobyns andGeorge Tras
A history of the Baptists in Missouri : embracing an account of the organization and growth of Baptist churches and associations : biographical sketches of ministers of the gospel and other prominent members of the denomination : the founding of Baptist institutions, periodicals, etc. . illiam M. Page—was born January 16, 1815, and emigratedto St. Louis in the fall of 1833. He returned to New Hampshirein 1836, and was married to Miss Eliza Jaquith of that state, andcame again to St. Louis. In 1842 Mr. Page professed conversion,and with eleven others, among whom were Edwin Dobyns andGeorge Trask, was baptized in Chouteaus Pond, and he becamea member of the Second Baptist Church. The same year and Mr. Dobyns were elected deacons of the church, andMr. Trask was elected treasurer. All three had been active inchurch affairs from the reorganization under Eev. B. T. Bra-brook in May, 1837. A few years afterward Deacon Page re-moved to New Orleans and became a constituent member of theFirst Baptist Church of that city, was elected one of its deacons,and through his influence Pastor Hinton was called from to New Orleans. He was a devoted friend of Mr. Hinton,and was at his bedside and closed his eyes when he fell a victimto the yellow fever scourge in 1 lie Baptist COLE. 124 MiSSOURI ASSOCIATION. He returned to St. Louis in 1848, and in the great fire of 1849he lost a steamboat, at which time all the business portion of thecity and thirty-two steamboats were burned. Soon after thefire he opened a store on Broadway, in connection with Smith, and two years afterwards bought the controllinginterest in the St. Louis Glass Works, which business prospereduntil the second winter, when the continued freezing over ofthe river, and there being no railroads, thus being cut off frommaterial, and the hands deserting them, the company became
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