CLASS OF 1861
Dr. Nomus Paige died at his home in Taunton, Mass., April 16, after a long illness.
He was born in Wentworth, N. H., March 26, 1840, the son of Joseph and Pamela (Ellsworth) Paige.
After receiving his medical degree in the the fall of 1860, he was for some months an interne at the Deer Island Hospital in Boston, and in June, 1861, became assistant physician at the Massachusetts State Hospital in Taunton. Two years later he began private practice in that city, and continued in his profession for over half a century. His clientage was extensive, and at one time the largest in that section of Massachusetts.
Dr. Paige was one of the founders and directors of the Nemasket Mills, now the Taunton River Mills, in East Taunton, organized the Taunton Electric Light Company in 1882, and was its manager until 1901, both as a private and municipal plant, and was a trustee of the Taunton Savings Bank. For twenty-five years he was physician at Taunton Jail, was a member of the staff of the Morton Hospital, and had been since 1863 a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, in which he had held many offices. He was a communicant of St. Thomas' Episcopal church.
He was twice married: first to Maria Josephine Hewins of Hyde Park, who died in 1876, and later to Mrs. Nora (Colby) Baylies, daughter of Samuel Colby of Taunton. The latter survives, with her two children, Russell C. Paige, a Taunton merchant, and Mrs. Eugene W. Leach.
