Proctor, Thomas H
manufacturer, author, was born March 12, 1842, in Marblehead, Mass. He is a successful shoe manufacturer of Vineland, N. J., and the present head of the populist party of New Jersey. He was educated in the public schools of his native city; took a course in a leading business college; started in the shoe manufacturing business in 1866, and removed to Vineland four years later. He is an able and interesting speaker, and an advocate of woman's suffrage and temperance. He is the author of a work entitled The Banker's Dream, a monograph disguised as a story.
PROCTOR, WILLIAM LAWRENCE, lumber merchant, was born March 26, 1837, in Washington, N. H. 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, N. Y. 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.