Page, Tony, 1910-1988.

Tony Page, her given name was Ellen Antoinette Hagmann a descendant of Irish immigrants, was born on July 11, 1910 in Moscow, Idaho. She was the daughter of Clarence Mills and Ruby Ethelyne Edgett, née Slee. Her father was a Mining Engineer and Geologist who received his degree from the University of Idaho. Her mother worked as a registered nurse. In 1911 the couple moved to British Columbia, Canada where Clarence Edgett found work for a gold mining company. Back in Spokane, Idaho a second child, a son, was born to the couple on September 9, 1913. When the family moved to Fort Worth, Texas is unknown, but Antoinette attended the Miss Williams Preparatory School for Young Ladies there.

Her writing career started in 1940 using at times the pseudonym Tony Hagmann and Ellen Edwards. She decided to change her name from Antoinette to Tony in order to increase her chances to be hired to the Flight Magazine, formerly known as Southern Flight and owned by George Haddaway in Dallas, Texas. The latter, who did not believe in women having a career of their own, was not present at the time of the interview, thus Page was hired by an executive. She was sent to Houston, Texas and could successfully avoid meeting her boss. Page said in an interview to the Austin Statesman in 1964: "It took him six month to find out I was a female. By that time, the war had started and females were more of an asset than a liability." Page worked for Flight Magazine until 1945.

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