title: Rutherford Page
text: # Rutherford Page
  
  Rutherford Page (April 27, 1887 - January 22, 1912) was an early American aviator who died in an airplane crash. An account of Page's death, with photo of him, can be found in Lawrence Goldstone's 2017 young adult book "Higher, Steeper, Faster: The Daredevils Who Conquered the Skies".
  
  ## Biography
  
  He was born on April 27, 1887, in Manhattan, New York City. He graduated from Yale University in 1910. He crashed from a height of 75 feet at Dominguez Field in Los Angeles, California on January 22, 1912, at 4:00 in his Curtiss biplane and was dead when extricated from the wreckage.
  
  