Emma E. Page

Emma E. Page was born at Metamora, Illinois, in 1852. The English, Scotch and German are in, interwoven in her remote ancestry. The Pages were among the sturdy planters of the Plymouth Colony.

Her father, A. N. Page, was a minister of the Church of Christ, and her mother was a great worker for the Master. They removed to Tazewell county in 1856, and in 1874 went to Champaign, that their children might have the advantages of the State University.

Miss Emma graduated there in 1878, taking the honors of a class of forty. She took a post-graduate course and a second degree. From 1879 to 1881 she was the music teacher in Eureka College. Later she taught music in Ottawa, Kansas, and in Kansas City, Missouri.

In 1888 she went with her parents to Mannville, Wyoming, which is still her home. In 1892 she was made chairman of the Prohibition State Central Committee, and she is now in the lecture field for the W. C. T. U.

Source:  A History of Eureka College, St. Louis:  Christian Publishing Company, 1894.