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May 27, 1818 Died on 15 Oct 1873 (aged 55)
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About Herman L. Page
- Herman L.
- Page (May 27, 1818 – October 15, 1873) was a merchant and Wisconsin politician.
- He was born in Oneida County, New York, later moving to Nunda, New York, in Livingston County, New York, in 1844.Page operated a store in the old Pioneer store, 393 East Water, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.In 1853 he became sheriff of the county.
- He was responsible for starting the detective force in the city.
- During his term as mayor, he advocated the policy of uniforming the police force.Page was a very able man but was a renegade.
- He began his career as an abolitionist, but having high political aspirations he took allegiance to the Democratic Party.
- He was elected mayor of Milwaukee in 1859.
- He spent most of his short term of office attacking the former administration of William L.
- Prentiss.The Twenty-fourth Infantry Regiment, Civil War was recruited under the direction of Lieutenant Colonel Herman L.
- Page, however, Page resigned before the regiment left the state. He was an officer in the Odd Fellows, 1851-1853.Herman Page died while visiting Dresden, Germany in 1873.
