The first station out of Heron Lake was proposed in the extreme northeastern corner of Nobles County, and was originally named Warren, in honor of Joseph Warren who fell at the Battle of Bunker Hill.
From his brief association with military topics, he retained a lifelong interest in them, and when the Civil War began in 1861, he was already collecting notes on Bunker Hill, planning to paint an accurate rendition of the battle.
He fought in the Battle of Bunker Hill, just outside Boston, at the age of thirteen as a drummer boy.
He fought as a Minuteman at the Battle of Bunker Hill and remained active until the end of the war effort.
According to tradition, some of this powder was sent to New England and was used by Patriots at the Battle of Bunker Hill.
His father was also named Peter Cushman Jones (1808–1885), and his mother was Jane MacIntosh Baldwin, whose grandfather Isaac Baldwin (1738–1775) died in the Battle of Bunker Hill.
He fought at Bunker Hill and Fort Catskill, and suffered through the long winter at Valley Forge and his nickname was "Seacracker".
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Page went with the corps of engineers to North America and distinguished himself in service to General Pigott at the Battle of Bunker Hill on 17 June 1775, where he was severely wounded.
His maternal grandfather, Thomas Treadwell, served with the Minutemen and was at the battle of Bunker Hill with Colonel William Prescott's regiment.