Encyclopedia of Biography of New York
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Excerpt from Encyclopedia of Biography of New York: A Life Record of Men and Women Whose Sterling Character and Energy and Industry Have Made Them Preëminent in Their Own and Many Other States Of Revolutionary ancestry, a veteran of the great war which firmly cemented the States of the Union into an invincible band of brothers, a business man of the highest rank, and a citizen beyond reproach, Thomas R. Proctor, builded his character well, and his record is a precious heritage to his family, his many friends and to his fellow citizens. From 1869, when he first came to the City of Utica, New York, until his passing more than half a century later, he was prominent in the business life of the city, reaching the very pinnacle of business success and usefulness. He will live in the history of Utica as a leading financier and business man, but, when the memory of his life shall become dim through the lapse of time, his name will always live in the 500 acres of park grounds consisting of Roscoe Conkling, Horatio Seymour, Addison C. Miller, Thomas Spriggs, Thomas R. Proctor and Frederick T. Proctor parks, which he donated to the people of Utica for all time. He came from a race of hardy New Englanders, his great-grandfather an officer of the Revolution and the founder of a town in the Vermont wilderness, to which he gave his own name, Proctorsville. The Proctors came to New England from England, and were of ancient lineage, men of rank and position, the family bearing arms, the following being a description given by Burke of the Proctor-Beauchamp arms, the families being related: Arms - Quarterly, first and fourth argent a chevron between three martlets sable for Proctor; second and third gules a fesse between six billets, three and three, barways or, a canton ermine for Beauchamp. Crests - First, on a mount vert a greyhound sejant argent spotted of a brown colour, collared argent for Proctor; second, an heraldic tiger statant or, vulned in the shoulder proper for Beauchamp. Motto - Toujours fidele. William De Beauchamp, who died in 1375, held the Manor of Tottenham by virtue of a grant from his cousin John, Earl of Pembroke, and Ephraim Beauchamp owned lands in the same manor which afterwards vested in George Beauchamp Proctor, Esquire of Shetford in Norfolk, under the will of his father, Sir William Beauchamp Proctor. In St. Olard, in the city of York, this inscription is found on a monument: Here Lieth the Body of Ivan Farley Wife of Fabien Farley and daughter of John Proctor of Lankland Hall, who died at the age of eighty-six years. 1602 The arms of the Proctor family were granted in 1436, and the chevron testifies that they came into England with the Conqueror, 1066. Four Proctors came from England to Massachusetts between the years 1635-1643, and perhaps unrelated, there being no evidence to the contrary. Robert Proctor, founder of the branch to which Thomas Redfield Proctor of Utica, New York, attaches, settled in Concord, where he became a freeman under the law in 1643. He married, December 31, 1645, Jane Hildreth, eldest daughter of Richard Hildreth, who died at Chelmsford in 1688, and sister of Abigail Hildreth, who married Moses Parker. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
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