. Biographical history of Massachusetts : biographies and autobiographies of the leading men in the state . ay Colony; Simon Bradstreet, eighth Governor of theMassachusetts Bay Colony; Anne (Dudley) Bradstreet, firstAmerican poetess; and William Bradford, second Governor of thePlymouth Colony. Mr. Proctor had no particular diflSculties to overcome in attain-ing an education. He attended Miss Morgans School of Salem,Massachusetts, the Salem Grammar School, and the High Schoolof that city. In 1875, he entered the employ of his uncle, Thomas E. Proctor,engaged in the leather business in Boston. I
. Biographical history of Massachusetts : biographies and autobiographies of the leading men in the state . ay Colony; Simon Bradstreet, eighth Governor of theMassachusetts Bay Colony; Anne (Dudley) Bradstreet, firstAmerican poetess; and William Bradford, second Governor of thePlymouth Colony. Mr. Proctor had no particular diflSculties to overcome in attain-ing an education. He attended Miss Morgans School of Salem,Massachusetts, the Salem Grammar School, and the High Schoolof that city. In 1875, he entered the employ of his uncle, Thomas E. Proctor,engaged in the leather business in Boston. It was by personalpreference that he chose this hne of endeavor for a business 1875 to 1887 he was in the employ of Thomas E. Proctor;from 1887 to 1893, he was in the employ of the Thomas E. ProctorLeather Company; from 1893 (when the United States LeatherCompany was formed and took over the Thomas E. ProctorLeather Company) until some time subsequent to December 7, 1894(when his uncle, Thomas E. Proctor, died), he was with the UnitedStates Leather Company; from January 10, 1895, when he was. L FC ABEL HARRISON PROCTOR appointed by the Probate Court of Suffolk County, Massachusetts,one of the trustees under the will of T. E. Proctor, until March 6,1913 (when Abel Harrison Proctor died), he gave his entire atten-tion to the management of the trust, and various matters incidentthereto. While still a young man, he was elected a director of theWebster National Bank of Boston. From 1899 to 1908 he was adirector of the Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company, and in1904, a member of its Executive Committee. He was also a mem-ber and a director of the Boston Real Estate Exchange. Mr. Proctor was affiliated with the following societies: the SalemClub of Salem, the Algonquin Club of Boston, the Boston ArtClub, and the Boston Athletic Association. Politically he was aRepubhcan. In local affairs, however, he was always more or lessindependent. During the latter years of his life
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