Cumberland County, Maine - John F. Proctor
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Biography
John F. Proctor
Biographical Review
Cumberland County, Maine
Boston
Biographical Review Publishing Company
1896
Page 179


John F. Proctor, a long-established dealer in real estate and mortgages, whose
office is at 93 Exchange Street, Portland, was born in this city, October 18,
1839; son of John C. and Lucinda P. (March) Proctor. His paternal grandfather
was William Proctor, of New Gloucester, Me., proprietor of a hotel known as "The
Travellers' Home." John C. Proctor, father of John F., was a pioneer in the real
estate business in Portland, starting in 1852, and conducting a prosperous
business up to the time of his death, which occurred July 28, 1891. His wife,
who is still living, at the age of eighty-two years, is the daughter of a
Revolutionary patriot, who was the youngest enlisted recruit in the United
States Army, being only twelve years of age when he joined the ranks as fifer.
He subsequently became High Sheriff of Cumberland County. Mrs. John C. Proctor
was the mother of nine children.

John F. Proctor received his education in the common schools and high school of
Portland, and first worked as a clerk in a shoe store, remaining two years. He
then entered into business with his father, and spent four, or five years in
Vera Cruz, Mexico, where his brother Charles M. Proctor, who was United States
Consul at that place, died in 1861. Mr. Proctor has been in his present business
for about thirty-five consecutive years, having had charge of it since the death
of his father, with whom he was associated some thirty years of that period. He
is a competent and painstaking business man, and his sterling integrity and
careful attention to the wants of his patrons have won for him an enviable
reputation.

Mr. Proctor married Fannie L., daughter of John (Haskell) Easterbrook, of
Cambridge, Mass., and seven children have blessed their union, namely: Alma
Louisa, who married Edward E. James, of Deering; Stella Gertrude; Charles F.;
Annie E.; Mabel F.; Josephine H.; and Marion. Mr. Proctor's only son, Charles
F., was married September 18, 1895, to Eleanor, daughter of Edwin Griffin, of
Portland.

Politically, Mr. Proctor favors the Republican party. He is well advanced in
Masonry, belonging to Greenleaf Chapter, A, F. & A. M. He and his wife are
members of the First Unitarian Church of Portland. They have a pleasant home on
Congress Street in Deering.