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Virginia. In 1893, he proposed to her. They wed at Byrd's Nest Chapel on June 6, 1893, before sixty relatives and close friends. One of the two reverends who jointly officiated the wedding was Reverend Frank Page, the brother of the groom. Soon after marrying, the Pages moved to
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Marshall Field & Company.
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Florence (who would ultimately marry into the name
Florence Field Lindsay). In 1888, she gave birth to a third daughter, who she named Gladys. Glayds would die eight months after birth.
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at the Byrd's Nest Chapel, located between her family's "Huntington" estate and her uncle Thomas
Barbour Bryan's "Eagle's Nest" estate in Elmhurst. Henry Field was a junior partner in
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that Henry Field had owned, except those that were family portraits. This collection totaled 44 oil paintings, many of them from the
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1188:Florence Lathrop Page: A Biography
1026:. Chicago. June 4, 1893. p. 1
802:. Chicago. June 7, 1893. p. 3
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248:Early life, education, and family
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898:. September 25, 1921. p. 14
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588:University of Virginia
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410:The Song of the Lark
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