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by his second wife Martha Harding (dau. John Harding of Leicester, England, by his wife [widow] Mrs. Clark), to whom he was mar. 2 February, 1804, in New York city, by the noted Rev. Dr. John M. Mason. (Benjamin Page was b. in Norwich, co. Norfolk, England, in 1765; d. at his country-seat, Branch Grove, Hamilton co., near Cincinnati, Ohio, 9 June, 1834; buried Spring Grove cemetery, Cincinnati, O.; resided for a time in London, where he received his mercantile education in the counting-house of Messrs. Maltbys, called "Norwich manufacturers" in the London directory for 1786; removed to New York city in 1797; owned considerable property at Greenwich, then a separate village, and was a shipping merchant in the city and one of the first importers of English goods after the Revolutionary war, in which business he continued to engage extensively until about 1814, when he removed permanently to Pittsburgh, where he had previously, in 1808, with Benjamin Bakewell and Thomas Kinder of New York city, organized what was the first glass house within the then limits of Pittsburgh, which, infinitely more, was also the first successful flint glass works in the United States, in which enterprise Mr. Page liberally embarked of his ample means. They received the silver medal awarded by the Franklin institute, in 1825, for the best specimens of cut glass, over many competitors.[1]) Issue: | |||||
| 1. Sarah Mahon Ormsby Page, m. 25 March, 1852, to William Oden Hughart, b. 8 June, | |||||
- ↑ For further reference to this historic works, see Reminiscences of Glass-Making, by Deming Jarvis; Letters from the West, by Hon. Judge Hall; Lyford's Western Directory; the volumes of Niles' Register, and Jos. D. Weeks' Special Report to the Tenth Census on the Manufacture of Glass, as also the early Pittsburgh directories.
