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Emma Hayden (née Gilham) Page (September 27, 1855 – February 14, 1933) was the youngest daughter of Major William Gilham, Commandant of Cadets at Virginia Military Institute (VMI) in Lexington, Virginia, where she was born 5½ years before the beginning of the American Civil War. In 1882, Emma married William Nelson Page (1854–1932) a United States civil engineer, entrepreneur, capitalist, businessman, and industrialist. William Page is best known as one of the leading managers and developers of West Virginia's rich bituminous coal fields in the late 19th and early 20th century, as well as being deeply involved in building the railroads and other infrastructure to process and transport the mined coal. He was co founder of the Virginian Railway, and the namesake for the West Virginia unincorporated communities of Page in Fayette County and Pageton in McDowell County. Emma and William Page settled in the town of Ansted, West Virginia where he had a palatial Victorian mansion built on a knoll by coal company carpenters. There, they lived for 27 years (1890–1917) in the highly visible symbol of wealth and power in the community and raised their family with the help of 8 servants. In modern times, known as the Page-Vawter House, it is a surviving landmark listed on the National Register of Historic Places that has been described as evidence of the once thriving coal business of an earlier era in the Mountain State.〔http://www.byways.org/explore/byways/10345/places/15730/〕 == Childhood == Emma Hayden Gilham was born in 1855 in Lexington, Virginia in Rockbridge County.〔http://www.angelfire.com/realm3/ruvignyplus/014.html〕 She was the daughter of Major William Gilham, Commandant of Cadets and an instructor at Virginia Military Institute (VMI), one of 7 children he had with his wife Cordelia Adelaide (née Hayden) Gilham.〔http://www.vmi.edu/uploadedFiles/Archives/Local_History/1860Census.pdf〕 Her father was assisted at VMI by a younger teacher who was to become one of the more famous Confederate leaders, Thomas J. Jackson, better known as Stonewall Jackson. In 1860, Major Gilham prepared a well-known training manual for recruits and militia at the request of Virginia Governor Henry A. Wise. It was entitled ''Manual of Instruction for the Volunteers and Militia of the United States'' and was initially published in Philadelphia. As the American Civil War broke out the following year, he was involved with early training of cadets at Camp Lee (also known as New Fairgrounds, or Camp of Instruction) in Richmond, Virginia.〔http://www.mdgorman.com/Hospitals/camp_lee.htm〕 In June, 1864, Emma's childhood home on the campus of VMI was burned during a raid led by Union General David Hunter. The house, a campus landmark, was later rebuilt to original specifications after the War.〔http://www1.vmi.edu/archivephotos/Details.asp?ACCNUM=2673&num=451&rform=list〕 After the War ended in 1865, William Gilham became president of fertilizer company in Richmond. Emma spent her teen-aged years at Richmond, where she was a débutante at one of Richmond's earliest "Germans", which were formal social gatherings for the young people (the name of these events had no relationship to Germany).〔(Newspaper Article: Richmond Germans ) at richmondthenandnow.com〕 She was the sister of Julius Hayden Gilham (April 6, 1852 – March 10, 1936) who also buried in Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia.〔http://www.vmi.edu/uploadedFiles/Archives/Local_History/1860Census.pdf〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Emma Gilham Page」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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