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	Proctor, Vermont Town Political History
		Proctor is known as the "Marble Capital of the United States." (Swift, 415) It is home to quarries and finishing plants, along with the corporate headquarters and visitors exhibit of the Vermont Marble Company.
		Redfield Proctor, the eventual marble tycoon and architect of the town that bears his name, was born in 1831 in Cavendish, located in Windsor County.
		Redfield Proctor, as mentioned, was governor in 1878; his son Fletcher in 1878; Redfield, Jr., in 1922; and Fletcher's son, Mortimer, in 1945.
	www.uvm.edu /~ashawley/proctor (4244 words)

	Redfield Proctor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Redfield Proctor (June 1, 1831–March 4, 1908) was a U.S. politician of the Republican Party.
		Proctor was a native of Proctorsville (a village in Cavendish, Vermont), named after his family, in Rutland County, Vermont.
		In October, 1862, Major Proctor was promoted to the colonelcy of the 15th Vermont Volunteers, and participated in the Gettysburg Campaign, but was stationed in the rear and did not participate in the battle.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Redfield_Proctor (896 words)

	Redfield Proctor
		Proctor was a native of Proctorsville, a town named after his family, in Rutland County, Vermont.
		Proctor fought in the American Civil War, rising to the rank of colonel in the Fifteenth Vermont Regiment.
		Proctor left the War Department in November, 1891 to become a United States senator, filling a vacancy caused by resignation.
	www.seattleluxury.com /encyclopedia/entry/Redfield_Proctor (449 words)

	Vermont Civil War
		Proctor, Redfield, of Proctor, son of Jabez and Betsy (Parker) Proctor, was born in Proctorsville, June 1, 1831.
		Redfield Proctor received an excellent preparatory education, and was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1851.
		Senator Proctor won national reputation by his conduct of the war portfolio, and his administration is considered one of the ablest in the history of the department.
	vermontcivilwar.org /state/bios.php?input=4789 (746 words)

	American President
		Redfield Proctor was born in 1831 in Proctorsville, Vermont.
		Proctor served as secretary of war from 1889 to 1891, resigning his cabinet post to become a member of the U.S. Senate.
		Redfield Proctor served in the Senate until his death in 1908.
	www.americanpresident.org /history/benjaminharrison/cabinet/SecretaryofWar/RedfieldProctor/h_index.shtml (256 words)

	Proctor, Redfield - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		PROCTOR, REDFIELD [Proctor, Redfield] 1831-1908, American industrialist and political leader, b.
		After he returned (1863) to Vermont he joined the Vermont Marble Company at Sutherland Falls (now Proctor) and made the company one of the largest of its kind in the country.
		Proctor served in both houses of the state legislature and was lieutenant governor (1876-78) and governor (1878-80) before he became (1889) U.S. Secretary of War.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-proctor.html (210 words)

	NEB&W Layout Guide - Proctor and Brockway Mills
		Proctor was the home of the Vermont Marble Co., which had over 40 quarries, some as far away as Colorado.
		In 1870, Redfield Proctor from Proctorsville, VT came to town to manage the company.
		The highway abutments of the Proctor scene are made of balsa, with mortar lines made with a pencil, because the stones are smooth rubble, not faceted.
	railroad.union.rpi.edu /images/visguide/proctor.php (787 words)

	The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Proctor
		Son of Redfield Proctor (1831-1908); brother of Redfield Proctor (1879-1957); father of Mortimer Robinson Proctor.
		Grandson of Redfield Proctor (1831-1908); son of Fletcher Dutton Proctor; nephew of Redfield Proctor (1879-1957).
		Son of Redfield Proctor (1831-1908); brother of Fletcher Dutton Proctor; uncle of Mortimer Robinson Proctor.
	politicalgraveyard.com /bio/proctor.html (592 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Redfield,
		Proctor, Redfield PROCTOR, REDFIELD [Proctor, Redfield] 1831-1908, American industrialist and political leader, b.
		Redfield girls' basketball team wins at own classic The Redfield girls' basketball team used a balanced attack to edge Woonsocket 36-30 at the Redfield...
		The Redfield girls' basketball team used a balanced attack to edge Woonsocket 36-30 at the Redfield Holiday Classic on Monday.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Redfield, (434 words)

	Watches from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute
		Thomas Redfield Proctor, born in Vermont and educated in Boston, served in the United States Navy during the Civil War and afterward settled in Nyack, N.Y., where he managed a hotel.
		The Proctors' watch collections were assembled by each brother individually in the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries but were given as a single collection to the institute in 1935.
		The catalogue, the sixth in an ongoing series the museum has published since the mid-1980s on aspects of its varied holdings, is a comprehensive, scholarly guide to the entire collection, it is intended for specialists and collectors, but features an accessible text and attractive, full-page color illustrations for a general readership.
	www.antiquesandthearts.com /CS0-09-11-2001-13-07-38 (1341 words)

	Ernest Gibson Wins GOP
		Redfield Proctor, founder of the Vermont Marble Co., was elected governor in 1878; his son Fletcher, in 1906; Redfield, Jr., in 1922; and Fletcher's son, Mortimer, in 1944.
		In between most of the governors were Proctor candidates chosen from the allied worlds of industry, utilities, railroads, and insurance.
		The irony of the challenge was that Mortimer Proctor had done a great deal to improve the state's health, welfare and education and was considered one of the state's more progressive governors.
	vermonttoday.com /century/topstories/egibson.html (233 words)

	History
		The current site was constructed in 1907 on land purchased by the Proctors (owners of the Vermont Marble Company).
		Redfield Proctor was instrumental in purchasing the land and in building the facility for the purpose of treating TB patients.
		The original donation came from Redfield Proctor in 1906.
	www.vcjtc.state.vt.us /council.htm (580 words)

	Picture History - Redfield Proctor (1834-1908)
		Proctor was a businessman, lawyer, and Republican politician from Vermont.
		Proctor was elected governor of Vermont and served from 1878 to 1880.
		President Benjamin Harrison appointed Proctor to be secretary of war in 1889 and he resigned in 1891 to become a U.S. senator.
	www.picturehistory.com /find/p/6178/mcms.html (157 words)

	Redfield PROCTOR — Infoplease.com
		“Redfield Proctor: A Biography.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1980.
		Cooley, Roger G. “Redfield Proctor: A Study in Leadership—The Vermont Period.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Rochester, 1955.
		“Senator Proctor’s Cuban Speech: Speculations on a Cause of the Spanish-American War.” Quarterly Journal of Speech 55 (April 1969): 131-41.
	www.infoplease.com /biography/us/congress/proctor-redfield.html (152 words)

	uticaOD.com :: The meeting place and marketplace of the Mohawk Valley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Thomas R. Proctor Park, with its stunning landscape, is the place to be for outdoor enthusiasts -- especially in the summer.
		Proctor Park was donated to the city by Thomas Redfield Proctor in 1910, just two years after he donated Roscoe Conkling Park to the city.
		Proctor had acquired land out in the country in the latter part of the 19th century.
	www.uticaod.com /archive/2004/08/11/news/5145.html (629 words)

	The Spanish-American War: American Wars and the Media in Primary Documents - Introduction
		In measured and deliberately unemotional terms, Proctor described the appalling suffering he found in Cuba, where the abuses of Spain’s reconcentration policy were largely unabated.
		Proctor’s speech—read “with as little apparent feeling as if [the contents] constituted an agricultural report instead of a record of almost inconceivable horror”41—made more compelling the case for U.S. military intervention on humanitarian grounds.
		Proctor acknowledged that he had gone to Cuba “with a strong conviction that the picture [of devastation] had been overdrawn; that a few cases of starvation and suffering had inspired and stimulated the press correspondents, and they had given free play to a strong, natural, and highly cultivated imagination.
	academic2.american.edu /~wjc/spanish5.htm (1306 words)

	Redfield Proctor and Emily Dutton, daughter of Fletcher and Sarah "Barlow" Dutton
		He was made a freeman at Concord in 1643, and in 1654 settled in Chelmsford, from which town Leonard Procter, who had served as an officer in the Revolutionary War, moved to Vermont in 1788, and was the first permanent settler of Proctorsville.
		Redfield Procter was graduated from Dartmouth college, A.B., 1851, A.M., 1854, and from the Albany Law School, LLB, 1860.
		His son, Fletcher Dutton, succeeded him in the presidency of the Vermont Marble company in 1889; was a representative in the State legislature, 1890-91 and in 1900-01, when he was elected speaker of that body, and was a member of the state senate in 1891.
	www.barlowgenealogy.com /Families/Barlow-Dutton-Proctor.html (567 words)

	Swiss Company Closing Longtime Proctor Plant
		Proctor – Vermont Marble Co., once supplier to some of the world’s great buildings and employer of thousands, will close next month ending 123 years as a strong economic and political force.
		Founded by Col. Redfield Proctor in 1870, the company at one time employed several thousand workers and provided marble for some well-known buildings.
		Proctor and his family were a dominant political force in the state.
	www.vtce.org /12893a.html (964 words)

	VHS MSS: Proctoriana Collection
		Otto Johnson was born in Proctor, Vermont, April 9, 1889, the son of Erik and Christina (Olson) Johnson.
		He was required to return to Proctor when his father became ill and spent the rest of his life there, investing in stocks and securities, and collecting Proctor related materials and history.
		In addition to the marble industry Johnson researched the establishment of the town of Proctor in 1886, and the history of local institutions such as the school, the churches, and societies and clubs.
	www.vermonthistory.org /arccat/findaid/proctor.htm (2924 words)

	Crucible of Empire - PBS Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		On March 17, 1898, Vermont Senator Redfield Proctor (1831-1908) delivered one of the most significant speeches of the Spanish-American War era.
		Senator Proctor's words, unlike those of the sensationalist press, were taken seriously by Congressional Republicans and the U.S. business community.
		Proctor, a former Civil War colonel, Vermont governor, and businessman, was highly respected and trusted by U.S. conservatives.
	www.pbs.org /crucible/tl11.html (185 words)

	The Proctor Watch Collection
		The Munson-Williams-Proctor decorative arts collection that comprises items collected by the Proctor brothers, including timepieces, thimbles, fans, postcards, and paintings, is housed at Fountain Elms, the original 1850 Italianate mansion of one of the brothers in Utica, New York.
		Thomas Redfield Proctor (1844-1920) and Frederick Towne Proctor (1856-1929), his half-brother, married two sisters, Rachel and Maria, the daughters of Helen Munson Williams and James Watson Williams.
		The Proctor collection demonstrates important perspectives of watch adornment and its relationship to broader stylistic trends in the field of decorative arts.
	www.msjsoftware.com /articles/article.asp?ID=58130 (636 words)

	Speech
		This is the text of a speech given by Vermont Senator Redfield Proctor concerning conditons in Cuba, and the effects of Governor-General Weyler's Reconcentration policy.
		Proctor was a strong U.S. senator during this period.
		He is often remembered for his support for George Dewey in Dewey's goal of gaining the command of the Asiatic Squadron.
	www.spanamwar.com /proctorspeech.htm (1990 words)

	Redfield Proctor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Robert Gordon Hardie (1854—1904) was born and died in Brattleboro, Vermont, and was thus a logical choice to paint one of the state’s prominent citizens, Secretary Proctor.
		He studied painting at the Cooper Institute and the National Academy of Design in New York, and under Jean Léon Gerôme in Paris, and was elected to the Society of American Artists in 1879.
		Hardie painted Secretary Proctor from life shortly after Proctor resigned from the War Department post to succeed George Edmunds in the United States Senate.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/Sw-SA/Proctor.htm (85 words)

	Local_Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The first books were provided by Senator Proctor, and in the early years of raising money for the Library it was his custom to double whatever amounts were earned in other ways.
		Emily Proctor, wife of Senator Redfield Proctor, provided the funds for the building of a structure as a memorial to Arabella Proctor Holden, her daughter.
		Records show that Proctor Free Library has been a free library since 1904, and is now supported by endowments, contributions and by appropriations from the town.
	www.proctorfreelibrary.org /History.htm (469 words)

	In Vermont, The Passing of a Dynasty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The sale of the Proctor family’s 70 per cent ownership in Vermont Marble Company to Pluess-Staufer, made public in early October, has caused a stir that reaches far beyond this community of 2,000 people.
		Beginning with Redfield Proctor, who started the company in 1970, four members of the proctor family became Vermont Governors.
		From the company or the Proctor family came community gifts of every sort, a library, social clubs for men and women, homes for crippled children and tuberculosis patients, and generous donations of money and building materials for schools and churches.
	www.vtce.org /12676.html (626 words)

	Proctor Vermont Town Travel and Tourism Proctor VT USA
		The town was named after its founder, Redfield Proctor, and was incorporated in 1884.
		In the 1800s, Proctor was home to the Vermont Marble Company, where tens of thousands of tons of white marble were quarried.
		Proctor's main road, Route 3, makes for a beautiful drive in the autumn when the leaves are turning.
	www.vtliving.com /towns/proctor/index.shtml (265 words)

	Publications-Apr 2001 Bulletin Article
		The watches are drawn from a collection of 289 watches and table clocks by Thomas and Frederick Proctor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
		I was commissioned by MWPAI to do research on other watch collections of the same period as the Proctors’ and their present whereabouts.
		Besides the Proctor Collection in its original home, groups of clocks and watches from individual collectors have been left to museums and galleries.
	www.nawcc.org /pub/articles/apr01/pritchard.htm (1098 words)

	Watch Chatelaines In The Munson-Williams-Proctor - Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, NY Magazine ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Among the collectors of chatelaines that included watches were Thomas Redfield Proctor (1844-1920) and his half-brother Frederick Towne Proctor (1856-1929) who married two sisters, Rachel (1850-1915) and Maria (1853-1935), the daughters of Helen Munson Williams (1824-1894) and James Watson Williams (1810-1873) of Utica, New York.
		The Proctor couples traveled extensively in the United States and abroad collecting decorative arts objects and European paintings.
		Although the Proctors were not the richest of the nation's turn-of-the-century private watch collectors when compared to Henry E. Huntington, John Pierpont Morgan, James Ward Packard, and Henry J. Heinz, they were second to none in their diligence and passion.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1026/is_4_159/ai_73410730 (1003 words)

	AllRefer.com - Redfield Proctor (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		AllRefer.com - Redfield Proctor (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Redfield Proctor 1831–1908, American industrialist and political leader, b.
		Proctor served in both houses of the state legislature and was lieutenant governor (1876–78) and governor (1878–80) before he became (1889) U.S. Secretary of War.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/P/Proctor.html (227 words)

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