LePage - Jules Anthony
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In his early days as a salesman, his work brought him to Darlington where he met Miss Anna Blue, daughter of Wesley and Mary Webster Blue. They were married October 4, 1883 and from that time he made Darlington his home. Mr. and Mrs. LePage were the parents of a son Leon who survives and a daughter who deied in 1894. Mrs. LePage passed away March 30, 1924.
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Crawfordsville May 3- Jules LePage a Frenchman by birth, who has lived in the little town of Darlington, Montgomery County for the last 37 years is acquainted personally with General Ferdinand Foch, supreme commander of the allied armies in France. LePage first met Fock in 1872 when they were both stationed with the French Army at Antamarinar at that time one of the captials of the island of Madagascar. LePage was in the commissary department of corporal, while Foch was captain of a regiment of Arabians. “Not long after we met in 1872,” says LePage, “we discovered that we had both fought in the same battles during 1870 and we soon became warm friends. There is only a few months in the difference in ages of the two men. Foch was born Oct 2, 1851 in the Pyrenees, where General Joffre was also born. Foch was a Lt. in the French Army in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. LePage was born in Mostaguanem in Algeria in 1849. His parents were both French, his father being an engineer sent to Algeria in charge of the division of territory between the French and Moors. LePage and Foch were stationed at Antamarinar from Nov 1872 to Jan 1873, when the regiment in which Foch was a Capt. was called elsewhere and the one to which LePage belonged was sent to Senegambia and then Papeitee. LePage’s parents lived a dangerous life among the camps of the Moors and when the lad was five years old he was sent to France to be reared by his grandmother. His parents returned to France in 1863, LePage was educated at a college in Compegne but returned to Algeria in 1868 to serve the seven years in the army that the French government required of its subjects. Part of this time he was with the army in the Sahara and at one time with a company that was lost two months in the desert where before being found a large number died from thirst and starvation. A medal was given him by the French ruler for bravery during that time. Leaving the army in the 70s, LePage traveled in China, Japan and other foreign countries. He spent some time in America. Later he returned to America for Permanent residence. His ancestors were millers. He chose the work of a millwright and it was this work that brought him to Darlington in 1881. There he met and later married Miss Anna Blue. Since becoming a resident of Darlington, LePage has spent much time designing and constructing special machinery for grinding the various kinds of flours and for manufacturing breakfast foods of various sorts. LePage has been greatly interested in the European war news. He believes General Foch will prove to be wonderfully strong in his strategy on the western front. – kbz
Source: Darlingto nHerald 20 June 1935
Jules LePage, a resident of Darlington for more than 50 years, died at his home here Tuesday morning at 8 o'clock. He had been in failing health for more than two years and confined to his bed the past week. Mr. LePage was born in El Fifi, Algiers, French Africa, 85 years ago last December. He was the son of French parents and when two years old returned with them to Villiers Cottret, department of the Isne, their former home in France. After their return to France he lived in the home of his grandparents until he was 16 years old when he joined the French Army and served seven years in Africa. It wa sthere he knew the young Foch, who afterward became the great French General.
Returning to France when his term of military service ended he entered the milling business in which he had been trained by his grandfather. Some years later he made a trip to the US landing at New Orleans. After a short stay he went back to France but again returned to the US, this time coming to New York. Upon his arrival there he sought work in his chosen line and during the years that followed he was employed as salesman and in the offices of the largest milling concerns of the country, among which were the JB Alfrey Co and the Nordyke-Mormon Milling Co at Indianapolis; the Pillsbury Co at Minneapolis; the Orville Simpson Co. at Cincinnati; the Caldwell Co at Louisville and the GT Gump Co at Chicago. He retired from active business about 20 years ago and returned to his home here.
Mr. LePage's reputation as an inventor was known the country over as his inventive mind had created nmany new devices for the milling industry. Outstanding among his inventions was the process by which grain and coffee are now "steel cut." His income from royalties on his inventions amounted to many thousands of dollars.
In his early days as a salesman, his work brought him to Darlington where he met Miss Anna Blue, daughter of Wesley and Mary Webster Blue. They were married October 4, 1883 and from that time he made Darlington his home. Mr. and Mrs. LePage were the parents of a son Leon who survives and a daughter who deied in 1894. Mrs. LePage passed away March 30, 1924.
After Mrs. LePage's death the son and his family moved to the father's home and have cared for him devotedly in his declining years. Surviving besides the son are the dau-in-law, Mrs. Alice LePage and two granddaughters, Mrs. CB Ford of Santa Monica, California and Jacqueline LePage at home.
Brief funeral services will be conducted at the home this morning at 10:30 by the Rev. Will Robb. Burial will be in the IOOF Cemetery besides his wife and daughter. - kbz
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Indianapolis News Fri 3 May 1918 p 11
Crawfordsville May 3- Jules LePage a Frenchman by birth, who has lived in the little town of Darlington, Montgomery County for the last 37 years is acquainted personally with General Ferdinand Foch, supreme commander of the allied armies in France. LePage first met Fock in 1872 when they were both stationed with the French Army at Antamarinar at that time one of the captials of the island of Madagascar. LePage was in the commissary department of corporal, while Foch was captain of a regiment of Arabians. “Not long after we met in 1872,” says LePage, “we discovered that we had both fought in the same battles during 1870 and we soon became warm friends. There is only a few months in the difference in ages of the two men. Foch was born Oct 2, 1851 in the Pyrenees, where General Joffre was also born. Foch was a Lt. in the French Army in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. LePage was born in Mostaguanem in Algeria in 1849. His parents were both French, his father being an engineer sent to Algeria in charge of the division of territory between the French and Moors. LePage and Foch were stationed at Antamarinar from Nov 1872 to Jan 1873, when the regiment in which Foch was a Capt. was called elsewhere and the one to which LePage belonged was sent to Senegambia and then Papeitee. LePage’s parents lived a dangerous life among the camps of the Moors and when the lad was five years old he was sent to France to be reared by his grandmother. His parents returned to France in 1863, LePage was educated at a college in Compegne but returned to Algeria in 1868 to serve the seven years in the army that the French government required of its subjects. Part of this time he was with the army in the Sahara and at one time with a company that was lost two months in the desert where before being found a large number died from thirst and starvation. A medal was given him by the French ruler for bravery during that time. Leaving the army in the 70s, LePage traveled in China, Japan and other foreign countries. He spent some time in America. Later he returned to America for Permanent residence. His ancestors were millers. He chose the work of a millwright and it was this work that brought him to Darlington in 1881. There he met and later married Miss Anna Blue. Since becoming a resident of Darlington, LePage has spent much time designing and constructing special machinery for grinding the various kinds of flours and for manufacturing breakfast foods of various sorts. LePage has been greatly interested in the European war news. He believes General Foch will prove to be wonderfully strong in his strategy on the western front. – kbz