Fifty Years In The Northwest by William H. C. Folsom

was a truthful, intelligent, reliable man and filled some positions of responsibility. He had many stirring adventures and was once wounded by Indians and cared for by Gov. Cass, of Michigan, at Detroit and Fort Gratiot. He died in 1875, at Fort Edward, on the north shore of Lake Superior. WILLIAM STREETS came to Willow River in 1838, a refugee from the Fort Snelling reservation. He was frozen to death in the winter of 1851. CAPT. JOHN B. PAGE came from Piscataquis county, Maine, to the St. Croix valley in 1844, and engaged for awhile in cutting pine logs on Willow river. While rafting on the Mississippi he met, and after a brief courtship married, a woman who returned with him to his home on Willow river and who survives him. Mrs. Page had some reputation as a (Thomsonian) physician. They made their home in Hudson in 1847. Their daughter Abigail was the first white child of American descent born in Hudson. Abigail married George Bailey, and their sons, George W. and David, were for a long time residents of Hudson, and have but lately deceased. Mr. Page died Feb. 11, 1865. DR. PHILIP ALDRICH, although not a permanent settler till 1847, was an occasional or transient visitor, and had made a land claim in section