History of Essex County, Massachusetts, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . ajah Lunt, of Newburyport, andothers, bound for Calcutta. On this voyage he wasaccompanied by his young and charming bride, andon the return voyage, on January 4, 186i), a son wasborn to them, who lived but a few hours. It was asad loss, occurring, as it did, far from home and sym-pathizing friends, on the pathless wastes of the arrived in Boston in the spring of 1861), andthis voyage was the last of Captain Pages seafaringlife. Upon his retirement from sea-going, at the ear
History of Essex County, Massachusetts, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . ajah Lunt, of Newburyport, andothers, bound for Calcutta. On this voyage he wasaccompanied by his young and charming bride, andon the return voyage, on January 4, 186i), a son wasborn to them, who lived but a few hours. It was asad loss, occurring, as it did, far from home and sym-pathizing friends, on the pathless wastes of the arrived in Boston in the spring of 1861), andthis voyage was the last of Captain Pages seafaringlife. Upon his retirement from sea-going, at the earlyage of thirty-two years, in June, 1861), he commencedthe business of ship-brokerage, in company with H. Coffin, of Newburyport, in which cityCaptain Page continued his residence. This partner-ship lasted for three years, when it expired by limit-ation, and he lormed a new partnership in the samebusiness with Mr. E. L. Reed, which continued untilthe death of Captain Page, which occurred at New-buryport on the 23d of January, 1874, after a ])ainfulillness, during which he showed the courage and. ^^y cv^v^y^^c- NEWBURYPOHT. 1833 endurance of a heiDuiul the rosigiiatioiiota left two children, nanioil respectively tor tlieirpaternal and maternal grandlathers,—David PerkinsPage, born August 12, 1870, aud Rufus Wills Page,born July 13, 1S72, who reside with their widowedmother in Xewburyport, giving good promise to beworthy of their parentage. The death of Captain Page was a shock to a largecircle of friends, as it was terrible to his family, as hewas not thirty-eight years old, and so shortly beforeliad seemed to be in the full possession of a vigorousmanhood. The death of his father had been a likesudden alHietion, as he had died at about the sameage. the period of life when the mental and physicaljiowers are strongest, and when death is most was a man, too, like his father, who had his fac-ulties at command, and made the most of them, andthe
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