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Thomas Nelson Page from Who-When-What Book, 1900
Thomas Nelson Page from Who-When-What Book, 1900

Thomas Nelson Page (April 23, 1853 – November 1, 1922) of Virginia was a lawyer and American writer. Events 215 BC - A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Year 1853 ( MDCCCLIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Events 996 - Emperor Otto III issues a deed to Gottschalk Bishop of Freising which is the oldest known document using the name Ostarrîchi Year 1922 ( MCMXXII) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. The Commonwealth of Virginia ( is an American state A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law as an attorney, Counsel or Solicitor; a person The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A writer is anyone who creates a written work although the word usually designates those who write creatively or professionally as well as those who have written in many different forms He also served as the U.S. ambassador to Italy during the administration of President Woodrow Wilson, including the important period of World War I. The United States has had diplomatic representation in the nation of Italy and its predecessor nation the Kingdom of Sardinia, since 1840 with a break in relations Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28 1856—February 3 1924 was the twenty-eighth President of the United States. World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All

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Biography

Born in the village of Beaverdam in Hanover County, Virginia, he was a scion of the prominent Nelson and Page families, each First Families of Virginia. Hanover County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. First Families of Virginia (FFV originated with colonists from England who primarily settled at Jamestown and along the James River and other navigable Although he was from once-wealthy lineage, after the American Civil War, which began when he was only 8 years old, his parents and their relatives were largely impoverished during Reconstruction and his teenage years. Causes of the war See also Origins of the American Civil War, Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War The coexistence of a slave-owning South He attended the school now known as Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia but had to leave before graduation for financial reasons. Washington and Lee University is a private liberal arts college in Lexington Virginia, USA Lexington is an Independent city within the confines of Rockbridge County in the Commonwealth of Virginia. After working for a while, he was enrolled in the law school of the University of Virginia in pursuit of a legal career. The University of Virginia (also called UVa, UVA, Mr Jefferson's University, or The University) is a highly selective public research

Admitted to the Virginia Bar Association, he practiced as a lawyer in Richmond between 1876 and 1893, and began writing. The Virginia Bar Association (VBA is a voluntary organization of lawyers in Virginia with offices in Richmond Virginia. This article is about the city of Richmond the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia. He was married to Anne Seddon Bruce on July 28, 1886. She died on December 21, 1888 of a throat hemorrhage.

He remarried on June 6, 1893, to Florence Lathrop Field, a widowed sister-in-law of retailer Marshall Field, and moved to Washington, D.C.. Marshall Field ( August 18, 1834 - January 16, 1906) was founder of Marshall Field and Company, the Chicago -based Department Washington DC ( formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D There, he kept up his writing, which amounted to eighteen volumes when they were compiled and published in 1912. Page popularized the plantation tradition genre of Southern writing, which told of an idealized version of life before the Civil War, with contented slaves working for beloved masters and their families. Plantation tradition is a genre of literature based in the southern states of the USA that is heavily nostalgic for Antebellum times His 1887 collection of short stories, In Ole Virginia, is the quintessential work of that genre. Another short-story collection of his is entitled The Burial of the Guns (1894).

Under President Woodrow Wilson, Page served as U.S. ambassador to Italy for six years between 1913 and 1919. Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28 1856—February 3 1924 was the twenty-eighth President of the United States. The United States has had diplomatic representation in the nation of Italy and its predecessor nation the Kingdom of Sardinia, since 1840 with a break in relations His book entitled Italy and the World War (1920) is a memoir of his service there.

He died in 1922 in Hanover County, Virginia.

Historical sites

Page was an activist in stimulating the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities to mobilize to save historical sites at Yorktown and elsewhere, especially in the Historic Triangle of Virginia, from loss to development. Founded in 1889, the Richmond, Virginia -based Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities was the United States ' first statewide Yorktown is a Census-designated place (CDP in York County, Virginia, United States. The Historic Triangle is located on the Virginia Peninsula of the United States and includes the colonial communities of Jamestown, Colonial Williamsburg He was involved in gaining Federal funding to build a seawall at Jamestown in 1900, protecting a site where the remains of James Fort were recently discovered by archaeologists working on the Jamestown Rediscovery project which began in 1994. A seawall is a form of hard and strong Coastal defence constructed on the inland part of a Coast to reduce the effects of strong Waves. Jamestown, located on Jamestown Island in the Virginia Colony, was founded on May 14 1607 Archaeology, archeology, or archæology (from Greek grc ἀρχαιολογία archaiologia – grc ἀρχαῖος archaīos Jamestown Rediscovery is an Archaeological project of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (APVA investigating the remains of the original

Family

The Page and Nelson families were each among the First Families of Virginia. First Families of Virginia (FFV originated with colonists from England who primarily settled at Jamestown and along the James River and other navigable The Page lineage in Virginia began with the arrival at Jamestown of Colonel John Page at Jamestown in 1650. Colonel John Page ( December 26, 1628 - January 23, 1692) a merchant in Middle Plantation on the Virginia Peninsula, was Jamestown, located on Jamestown Island in the Virginia Colony, was founded on May 14 1607 Col. Page was a prominent founder of Middle Plantation, which was later renamed Williamsburg. Middle Plantation in the Virginia Colony, was an unincorporated town originally established in 1632 Williamsburg is a city located on the Virginia Peninsula in the Hampton Roads region in southeastern Virginia The Page family included Mann Page, U. Mann Page (1749&ndash1781 was an American lawyer and planter from Spotsylvania County Virginia. S. Congressman and Governor John Page. John Page ( April 17 1744 October 11 1808) was a figure in early United States history The Nelson lineage began with Thomas "Scotch Tom" Nelson, a Scottish immigrant who settled at Yorktown, and his son, William Nelson, who was a royal governor of Virginia. Thomas "Scotch Tom" Nelson (1677-1747 was an immigrant from Scotland who became a merchant at Yorktown in the Colony of Virginia. Yorktown is a Census-designated place (CDP in York County, Virginia, United States. Thomas Nelson Page was a direct descendant of Thomas Nelson, Jr., a signer of the Declaration of Independence and a governor after Statehood, and thus of Robert "King" Carter, who served as an acting royal governor of Virginia and was one of its wealthiest landowners in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Thomas Nelson Jr ( December 26, 1738 &ndash January 4, 1789) was an American planter soldier and statesman from Yorktown This article is about declarations of independence in general Robert Carter also known as King Carter (1663 &ndash August 4 1732 of Lancaster County was a Colonist in Virginia and became one of the The Nelson family had settled in Hanover County, where Thomas's mother Elizabeth Burwell Nelson, married John Page.

A contemporary cousin of Thomas Nelson Page was William Nelson Page (1854-1932), who became a civil engineer and mining manager had helped develop the natural resources of western Virginia and southern West Virginia in the alte 19th and early 20th centuries. William Page is credited with, in partnership with millionaire financier Henry Huttleston Rogers, planning and Building the Virginian Railway. Henry Huttleston Rogers ( January 29 1840 &ndash May 19 1909) was a United States capitalist, Businessman Building the Virginian Railway began as a project to create an -long Short line railroad to provide access for shipping of untapped Bituminous coal reserves in southern His family's Victorian-era mansion, the Page-Vawter House in Ansted, West Virginia, is a National Historical Landmark as is a former company store of the Page Coal and Coke Company in Pageton. Page-Vawter House in the town of Ansted in Fayette County West Virginia was built in 1889-90 by company carpenters of the Gauley Mountain Coal Company for Ansted is a town in Fayette County in the US state of West Virginia. A National Historic Landmark (NHL is a Building, site, Structure, Object, or District, that is officially recognized by the A truck system is an arrangement in which employees are paid in commodities or in lieu of wages for work performed thereby limiting their ability to choose how to spend their earnings Pageton is an Unincorporated town in McDowell County, West Virginia. Another cousin was U. S. and Confederate Naval Officer and Confederate Army General Richard Lucian Page (1807-1901). Richard Lucian Page ( December 20, 1807 &ndash August 9, 1901) was a U

The ruins of Rosewell Plantation, the home of early members of the Page family and one of the finest mansions built in the colonies, sit on the banks of the York River in Gloucester County. Rosewell Plantation in Gloucester County Virginia, USA for more than 100 years was the home of members of the Page family, one of the First Families The York River is a navigable Estuary, approximately 40 mi (64 km long in eastern Virginia in the United States. Gloucester is a county of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the USA. In 1916, a fire swept the mansion leaving a magnificent shell which is testament to 18th century craftsmanship and dreams, and the site ongoing archaeological studies. Archaeology, archeology, or archæology (from Greek grc ἀρχαιολογία archaiologia – grc ἀρχαῖος archaīos

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Trivia

The 1915 silent movie The Outcast is based on a short story of Page's from The Land of the Spirit.

Arlington Traditional School was once Thomas Nelson Page Elementary School in Arlington County, Virginia

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