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Dr. Lafayette Page was born at 200 Campbellsville ST, Columbia Adair County native, father of famed dancer Ruth Page, gained as measure of fame in his own right, as physician and as a professor of medicine at Indiana University of Medicine. Click on headline for complete story with some interesting bits about locations of graves in the family. By JIM Lafayette Page (1863-1929), a native of Columbia, was born and reared in the house on Campbellsville Street that in more recent history has served as a funeral home. He was a brother of long time Columbia resident J.T. Page and of Eliza Ann(a) Page, who married William Kendrick Azbill, a well-known minister, missionary, educator, and entrepreneur. During World War I, Dr. Page served in France with the A.E.F. Medical Corps and did research on reversing the effects of the mustard gas used by the Germans. (An article in the News from August 1918 intimates he had effected a treatment.) Lafayette settled in Indianapolis where he attained a measure of fame as a physician and as a faculty member at the Indiana University of Medicine. His wife, the former Miss Marian Heinly, had trained to become a concert pianist, and it was to her playing their daughter Ruth learned to dance, often entertaining family and guests with her innovative self-taught routines. Ruth's younger brother, Irvine H., somewhat torn between careers in music and medicine, chose the latter and went on to achieve international fame as a pioneer in the research of the causes, effects, and treatments of hypertension. His photograph appeared on the October 31, 1955 edition of Time magazine. Ruth's older brother, Lafayette, Jr., was graduated from Princeton University in 1920 and shortly thereafter had an insurance agency at 135 Broadway, New York City. Ruth Page (1899-1991, twice married, no kids) is buried in her adopted city, Chicago; her mother (1873-1945), in Indianapolis; her brother Irvine (1901-1991) either in Mass. where he died just a few weeks after Ruth's passing or in Cleveland, where he had lived for several decades; and the remains of her father "repose in rest eternal" in the Columbia City Cemetery, not far removed from those of his parents, George and Polly; his brothers J.T. and Wm. J.; and a sister, Mary Page Blakeman. This story was posted on 2013-09-10 11:13:37
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