William Lawrence Proctor

1837 - 1897  (60 years)

• Name	William Lawrence Proctor  [1]
  Birth	26 Mar 1837	East Washington, NH   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	19 Nov 1897	Lakewood, NJ   [1]
  Person ID	I7667	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	3 Jan 2022

  
  

  Father	Israel Proctor,   b. 25 Mar 1809, East Washington, NH d. 10 Apr 1888, Ogdensburg, NY (Age 79 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Mary Adams Barnes,   b. 13 Apr 1813, Hillsborough, NH d. 17 Jan 1878, East Washington, NH (Age 64 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	3 Jun 1835
  Family ID	F1783	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Dolly Paulina Howard,   b. 16 Dec 1842, Ogdensburg, NY d. 8 Feb 1917, Ogdensburg, NY (Age 74 years)
  Children	1. Nancy Grace Proctor,   b. 17 Aug 1869, Ogdensburg, NY d. 1953, Warsaw, NY (Age 83 years)  [natural]   2. Mable J. Proctor,   b. 1873  [natural]   3. Mary J. Proctor,   b. 1867  [natural]   4. Sumner M. Proctor,   b. 1866  [natural]   5. William Henry Proctor,   b. 1864   d. 5 Nov 1941, Seattle, King, Washington (Age 77 years)  [natural]
  Family ID	F7020	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Jan 2022

  
  

• Notes

  - Lumber merchant, was born March 26, 1837, in Washington, NH. He received the rudiments of his education in the district schools; attended Tubbs' Union academy; and finished with two terms in the New London academy. In 1857 he worked for his uncle at Burlington, Vt., in the lumber business; and two years later continued in the same business at Ogdensburg, NY. He has filled all the important offices in that city, and was its mayor in 1871-74, and 1884, and in 1886; and since 1887 has been one of the managers of the St. Lawrence State hospital. In 1888 he was the presidential elector and cast his vote for Benjamin Harrison for president. In 1896 he was a delegate to the Republican national convention; and since 1882 has been one of the Republican state committeemen. Since 1882 he has also been one of the superintendents of the poor; and trustee and president of the Ogdensburg cemetery since 1880. Since 1857 he has been respectively, employee, manager, vice-president and president of the Skillings, Whitney and Barnes Lumber company. (Enclopedia of American Biography.)

  
  

• Sources

  [S29] Ancestry.com, Public Member Trees, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;). Record for William Lawrence Proctor