Page, Joseph L., b. 1875. Homesteading in North Dakota in 1900. Page, Joseph L., b. 1875. History of four Page brothers and their sister Margaret A. Page who emigrated from their parental home near Girard, Illinois to North Dakota and filed on government homesteads between Mar[c]h 1888 and 1904. Page, Joseph L., 1875- History of four Page brothers and their sister Margaret A. Page who emigrated from their parental home near Girard, Illinois to North Dakota and filed on government homesteads between Marh [sic] 1888 and 1904. Includes "Homesteading in North Dakota in 1900," (11 leaves) by Joseph L. Page and "A history of four Page brothers and their sister Margaret A. Page who emigrated from their parental home near Girard, Illinois to North Dakota and filed on government homesteads between Mar[c]h 1888 and 1904," (11 leaves) by Joseph L. Page, both sketches relate the Page brothers and sister moving to N.D., their homesteading, blizzards, family members' involvement with banking, closing banks during the depression, Joseph's courtship of Anna Heidenrich, whom he later married, Joseph's soil conservation ideas, raising flax, Usher L. Burdick, Captain J.C. Atkins, father-in-law to Elisha B. Also mentions Pleasant Lake and Rugby, N.D. and includes newspaper clippings.