Through his literary interest he met and befriended noted author, and U.S. Ambassador to Italy, Thomas Nelson Page.
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Among the more-notable persons who often attended services at Fork Church were Patrick Henry, Dolly Madison, and the novelist Thomas Nelson Page.
Among young William Nelson Page's contemporaries born in the mid-19th century was his first cousin, Thomas Nelson Page (1853–1922), of Beaverdam in Hanover County.