Daniel D. Page

Page, Daniel D., at one time mayor of St. Louis, was born March 5, 1790, in York County, Maine, and died in Washington, D. C, April 29, 1869. He received a plain education, and was trained to the business of merchandising. In 1818 he came to St. Louis and began his career as a grocery merchant and baker. He took a prominent interest in local public affairs, and in 1829 was elected second mayor of St. Louis, succeeding Dr. William Carr Lane. In 1833 he built and put into operation the first steam flouring mill established in the city. In 1848, in company with Henry D. Bacon, he established the banking house of Page & Bacon. He was one of the incorporators of the Boat- men's Saving Institution, and also of the Pacific Railroad, and the banking house, of which he was the head, aided largely in bringing about the construction of the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad. He is remembered as one of the most useful men who have lived in St. Louis.

Pain Court.— The early inhabitants of St. Louis called Carondelet "Vide Poche - "Empty Pocket" — referring to the poverty or its first settlers. Carondelet reported by calling St. Louis "Pain Court" — without bread — for which they found justification in the fact that most of the French settlers in St. Louis' were traders and trappers, who did not produce a sufficient quantity of grain to supply the local demand, a frequent scarcity of bread being the consequence.

Painted Rock.-A point on the Osage River, about fifteen miles above its mouth, in the great bend. It was so named for the curious Indian painting which it bears. Of> the perpendicular stone bluff which overlook the stream, on the Osage County side, and about twenty feet above the water's edge, the early settlers found a well defined picture of a buffalo, the size of a small dog, and some characters which were not to be understood,, done with some red pigment which was ineffaceable by rubbing. The work was of the same character, and evidently executed with the same material, as the painted picture of the Piasa bird on Piasa Creek, near Alton, Illinois, and the pictures on French Broad River in North Carolina. All these have led" to much conjecture, but nothing has been revealed as to the work or by whom executed. The Painted Rock work was distinguishable as recently as in 1887.

As printed in Encyclopedia of the history of Missouri (v. 5) (1901). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.