Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 140, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1914 — AGED INVENTOR IS DEAD [ARTICLE]

AGED INVENTOR IS DEAD

Levi H. Page of Chicago Said to Have Designed First Arc Lamp. Chicago.—Levi H. Page, reported to have been the inventor of the arc lamp, was buried here. Mr. Page, who was seventy-eight years old, died of heart trouble in his home at 1657 West Madison street, in obscurity and comparative poverty although there are said to be 62 of his patents, registered in Washington, which have made fortunes for others. Mrs. Page, the widow, declared that her husband invented the first arc light and scores of other things, “from an egg beater to a mail shifter for ra|lway trains.” —. .—_4