Daniel D. Page was the second mayor of St. Louis, Missouri

St. Louis, Missouri

St. Louis is an independent city on the eastern border of Missouri, United States. With a population of 319,294, it was the 58th-largest U.S. city at the 2010 U.S. Census. The Greater St...

, United States

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Daniel Page was born in Parsonsfield, Maine

Parsonsfield, Maine

Parsonsfield is a town in York County, Maine, United States. The population was 1,584 at the 2000 census. Parsonsfield includes the villages of Kezar Falls, Parsonsfield, and North, East and South Parsonsfield...

 in 1790. At the age of fifteen, he moved to Portland, Maine

Portland, Maine

Portland is the largest city in Maine and is the county seat of Cumberland County. The 2010 city population was 66,194, growing 3 percent since the census of 2000...

 where he learned to be a baker

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, later setting up his own shop in Boston, Massachusetts. In Boston, he met and married Miss Deborah Young. Shortly thereafter, he moved to New Orleans, Louisiana

New Orleans, Louisiana

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 and became established in the tobacco

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 trading business. Despite his success, he moved to St. Louis, Missouri in 1818 due to his wife's failing health as she was adversely affected by the climate

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 in New Orleans.

Page was elected the mayor of St. Louis in 1829 and went on to serve four consecutive one-year terms. He was only the second mayor of St. Louis, the first being William Carr Lane

William Carr Lane

William Carr Lane was a doctor and the first Mayor of St. Louis, Missouri, serving from 1823 to 1829 and 1837 to 1840...

 who stepped down after serving six years in office. During his administration, many of the streets in St. Louis were graded and paved, a night watch was established for the protection of the citizens, and street cleaning

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 and refuse collection

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 were begun. Page also strengthened the Health Department and advocated for an improvement to public waterworks

Water supply

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 system.

After his tenure as mayor had ended, Page turned his attention to his business matters. In 1833, he built the first steam-powered flour mill

Gristmill

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 in St. Louis. In 1848, he partnered with his son-in-law Henry D. Bacon and created the banking house

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 of Page & Bacon. During this time, he invested heavily in railroads and real estate

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. Page & Bacon closed in 1855 on account of financial difficulties from building of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad

Ohio and Mississippi Railroad

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Daniel Page died in Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

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 on April 29, 1869 and was buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery

Bellefontaine and Calvary Cemeteries

Bellefontaine Cemetery and the Roman Catholic Calvary Cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri are adjacent burial grounds, which have numerous historic and extravagant tombstones and mausoleums. They are the necropolis for a number of prominent local and state politicians, as well as soldiers of the...

 in north St. Louis. Page Boulevard in St. Louis was named in his honor.

External links

• Daniel D. Page at the St. Louis Public Library: St. Louis Mayors Online Exhibit.