Emma Gilham Page was the wife of William Nelson Page (1854-1932) a United States civil engineer, entrepreneur, capitalist, businessman, and industrialist, who is best known as the co founder of the Virginian Railway and as the namesake for the town of Page, West Virginia.

Emma Hayden Gilham was the daughter of William Gilham and C.A. Gilham. She was the sister of J. Hayden Gilham (April 6, 1852 - March 10, 1936) who is buried in Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia.

It is known that Emma spent her teen-aged years at Richmond, where she was a débutante at one of Richmond's earliest "Germans", which were formal social gatherings for the young people (the name of these events had no relationship to Germany). [1] On February 9, 1882, she married William Nelson Page, son of Edwin Randolph and Olivia (née Alexander) Page of Campbell County, Virginia. They made their home in Ansted, West Virginia, where as head of Gauley Mountain Coal Company, William Page had company carpenters build a palatial mansion on a hilltop near the center of town where the family lived. After 1817, they lived in Washington, DC.

William Nelson and Emma Gilham Page had four children:

• Delia Hayden Page
• Edwin Randolph Page
• Mary Josephine Page
• Evan Powell Page

The Virginia Historical Society at Richmond, VA has a photograph of her listed as Mrs.William N. Page in its archives collections.

The Page house in Ansted, later occupied by the family of Dr. Gene Vawter, and now known as the Page-Vawter House, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.