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BENJAMIN EDWIN PAGE
PAGE, BENJAMIN EDWIN, Attorney, Los Angeles, California, was born at North Haven, Connecticut, October 16, 1877, the son of Dr. Benjamin Maltby Page and Cornelia (Blakeslee) Page. He married Miss Marie Markham, the eldest daughter of California’s distinguished former Governor, Hon. Henry Harrison Markham, at Pasadena, California, March 1, 1906, and to them there have been born two children, Eleanor and Benjamin Markham Page. Mr. Page is descended of early New England stock, his family, paternal and maternal, having been represented there for many generations. His father was a prominent physician of Cleveland, Ohio, who moved to California on account of ill-health in 1873; his grandfather, the Reverend Benjamin St. John Page, was a graduate of Yale Theological School and a noted clergyman of the Congregational and Presbyterian churches for many years; his paternal great-grandfather was engaged for many years as a merchant in the West India trade and later became a manufacturer in New England.
Mr. Page has spent the greater part of his life in Southern California and received his preliminary education in the public schools of Pasadena, graduating from High School in the class of 1895. He was graduated from Leland Stanford, Jr. University in 1899 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts and then took up the study of law in Columbia Law School, New York, from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1902.
Immediately after his graduation, Mr. Page was admitted to practice before the courts of New York State and shortly afterward returned to California, where he also was admitted. Later he was admitted to practice before the U. S. Supreme Court.
Mr. Page began practice in Los Angeles in the office of the firm of Bicknell, Gibson & Trask, but after a few months he formed a partnership with the late Clarence A. Miller, under the firm name of Miller & Page, this continuing until the death of Mr. Miller in the early part of 1906. In December of that year, Mr. Page formed a partnership with Joseph R. Patton, who, at Mr. Page’s request, moved to Los Angeles from San Jose, California. After a few years successful work, however, death again visited the offices of Mr. Page, his partner dying in the early part of 1910.
Since that time Mr. Page has practiced alone, making specialties of corporation, banking, mining and insurance law, serving as legal adviser for a number of important financial institutions in the West. These include the Merchants’ Bank & Trust Co. (about to become the Hellman Commercial Savings & Trust Co.) and other banks; the California business of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co., the Occidental Life Insurance Co., and various similar concerns. He also is the counsel for the Los Angeles Realty Board, the Civic Center Assn., and a number of the leading real estate firms.
Through his successful representation of the institutions and firms mentioned, Mr. Page has attained prominence as one of the versatile members of the profession. In addition to the above clientele he has an extensive mining practice and has successfully represented, in corporate and financial affairs, a number of important copper companies of Arizona and Nevada. He is generally regarded as an authority in certain branches of mining law.
Mr. Page is known in the city of Pasadena, where he has made his home during his residence in California, as one who takes a deep interest in all movements for the betterment of municipal and civic affairs, and he has been especially interested in the development of the educational facilities of his city. For several years he was a member of the Pasadena Board of Education, and was its Chairman on four successive occasions--a mark of the appreciation of his fellow members of his energetic activities in the improvement of the local educational system.
As is natural of one who has lived in Southern California for so many years, and witnessed its marvelous growth, Mr. Page has ever held a most optimistic view of its future, and has been himself of material assistance in helping in the development of Los Angeles through the placing of funds of important financial institutions with which he has become connected in the course of his practice. Millions of dollars from these institutions have been invested in the county under his advice and supervision.
Mr. Page is a member of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, the California Club of Los Angeles, the Midwick Country Club, and the Valley Hunt Club of Pasadena, and the Twilight Club.
Transcribed 5-7-10
Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 411, International News Service, New York, Chicago, San
Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Atlanta.
1913.
© 2010 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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