Baraboo News Republic
Monday, July 27, 1959

H.K. Page Dies Sunday

Harlan Kingsbury Page (photo)

Harlan K. Page, 85, passed away on sunday afternoon
about 4 o'clock at St. Mary's Ringling hospital where
he had been confined for the past three weeks. He had
been in failing health since December, having made his
last visit to his desk in the News-Republic office
just before Christmas; he had since been confined to
his home and the hospital.

Mr. Page had been an editor of the Baraboo
News-Republic since 1909.

Born in Madison in 1874, he had attended Beloit
college and the University of Wisconsin. He was
married to Beatrice A. Kelly in Madison in 1896, and
she had preceded him in death, September 25, 1948.

Surviving him are his two sons, Harlan Page, and M.C.
Page, who have been associated with him in business
here; three grandchildren, Patricia Page, now Mrs.
R.C. DiRenzo of Menasha. Curt Page of Baraboo, and
Pamela Page now Mrs. Joseph Kiser of Minneapolis.
There are also four great-grandchildren.

Mr. Page came from a family of newspaper men, his
father and grandfather having been in the newspaper
business before him. Prior to coming to Baraboo, where
he had purchased a half interest in the Baraboo Daily
News in 1909, he had worked on the Chicago Tribune and
Madison Democrat, an earlier morning paper in Madison.

Baraboo was the boyhood home of the deceased as he had
made his home with an aunt, Mrs. E.P. Lewis, here for
many years. Following the early death of his father,
an earlier editor of the State Journal in Madison, and
the return of his mother to the stage, Mr. Page had
come here as a youth.

He saw the merger of the Daily and Weekly Republic
with his paper in 1929. One of the oldest newspaper
men in the state, he had been active in the newspaper
business for more than 50 years. Prior to December of
this past year, he had taken a keen interest in the
affairs of this paper and he had made an almost daily
appearance at the News-Republic office.

Mr. Page was a Past Exalted Ruler of the Baraboo lodge
of Elks, was a member of the Masonic orders including
the Shrine, belonged to Trinity Episcopal church, the
Koshawagoes club, the Madison club, was affiliated
with Sigma Delta Chi journalism fraternity, the Modern
Woodman, and many other organizations.

the funeral of Mr. Page will be held on Tuesday at
2:30 p.m. at Trinity Episcopal church, with burial in
Walnut Hill cemetery. Friends may call at the Scheible
funeral home this evening from 7:00 to 9:00.

Contributed by Vicki Pierce